Heather Wilson
Heather Wilson
Heather Ann Wilsonis President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 December 1960
CountryUnited States of America
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There's a growing awareness that Katrina has changed not only the agenda but all the circumstances we find ourselves in,
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Now is not the time to be simultaneously going forward with a bill on taxes and Medicaid,
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If the government takes your land, they should pay for it,
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This wasn't an act of God. It was an act of man,
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I support creating a nonpartisan Office of Public Integrity. When individual members appear to have broken the rules, they should be investigated by an independent professional. We need a nonpartisan office that can investigate allegations of wrongdoing. Federal agencies have Inspectors General and the executive branch has an Office of Public Integrity. The Congress should be able to police its own members.
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I have told the leadership I am opposed,
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I oppose amnesty because I don't think people here illegally should get to go to the front of the line, ... But when we have hundreds of thousands of people standing at lines at embassies for the chance to come here and work in this country, laying pavement and picking lettuce in the 120-degree heat, I think we should come up with a system to allow for that.
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I don't think we are doing well in detecting, investigating and responding to ethics violations when they occur.
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The men who wrote the Constitution feared most a strong Executive with control of a standing army. Our Constitution is set up to protect all of us from tyranny.
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The law was written in 1978, pre-cell phone, pre-Internet. We need to do some updating.
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Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.
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We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
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The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.
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The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.