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Pearce Praises Bust on Fraudulent Document Operation |
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
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Pearce Praises Bust on Fraudulent Document
Operation
May 2, 2008
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Albuquerque -
On May 1, 2008 in Albuquerque, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force
(JTTF) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officials
announced the arrest of 10 "special interest illegal aliens". The
individuals arrested came from countries with special national security
concerns, according to the FBI. The arrests were made in regards to a
human smuggling and fraudulent document operation directed toward
providing illegal aliens with New Mexico Driver's Licenses and
identification. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the
9-11 hijackers obtained 30 driver's licenses and used more than 360
aliases.
"In
the Global War on Terror we must be alert and ready at all times to
stop future terrorist attacks from occurring on American soil. We need
to focus on those who would come here to do us harm and not those who
are simply looking for a better life," said Pearce. "This is more than
just a case of fraud. It is a threat to our national security as
terrorists, gangs, drug traffickers and human smugglers all wish to
obtain these documents."
Pearce has been a consistent
advocate for tighter border security, increased protections for state
issued driver's licenses and a host of measures that would help local law
enforcement prosecute and enforce the law. Pearce's opponents for
the U.S. Senate, however, have both made questionable votes against such
measures. Both Tom Udall and Heather Wilson have voted against
boosting security standards for driver's licenses, increasing the number
of lawyers available to prosecute human smuggling cases, and deporting
people who have attended terrorist training camps.
"We all want a friendly
northern and southern border," said Pearce who has long advocated a
three-pronged approach to immigration reform. "Workers are needed here and
many New Mexicans enjoy traveling back and forth to visit family and for vacation. I think an
efficient system is possible that allows safe travel, but also keeps out
those who intend to do us harm."
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
Well Servicing - March/April 2008
As
a regular department in Well Servicing magazine, Congressional Spotlight
profiles an elected official at the state or national level of government.
Interviewed by Kristin Van Veen-Hincke of Vikki Cooper & Associates
The passage of the
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 was opposed by many supporters of
the oil and gas industry. Although the legislation was touted by some as a
positive step for the industry, further scrutiny of the bill proved that notion
to be wrong.
Republican Congressman Steve Pearce of New Mexico believes Congress
actually passed what he calls “The No Energy Act.” “We didn’t do one thing to
enhance energy,” he said. “In fact, what we did is limit and regulate energy.
The initial bill was very destructive before we raised such objections in
committee, and between the committee and the floor, the Speaker of the House
chose to pull out the sections that were very damaging to the oil and gas
industry, However, even the titles that remained are destructive.”
One of those remaining titles is the increased CAFE standards by which
automakers are required to increase gas mileage to 35 mpg by the year 2020.
Pearce is opposed to this provision because it imposes unrealistic standards on
industry. “In regard to the CAFE standards, we do not have the technical
capability to produce those kinds of cars now. Basically, 380 cars are in our showrooms today.
Only eight comply with those new standards, so what we’re going to do is drive
the production down on high powered vehicles, such as pick-up trucks and trucks for the oilfield, and we’re going to make
those more expensive and make them less available. We are going to then
subsidize the low cost vehicles, the high mileage vehicles, meaning people in
the oilfield are basically going to subsidize people in San Francisco, New York
City and Los Angeles. That’s not what we should be about in this country. We
should be about freedom of choices. Unfortunately, this decision by Congress
will probably kill one of our three auto manufacturers because their profits
come from our pick-ups and SUVs.”
Another provision that survived in the bill is the renewable fuel
standards. Congressman Pearce believes this requirement is counterproductive to
the financial stability of our economy. “Thirty- six billion gallons of ethanol
are prescribed in this bill,” he explained, “and half of those have to come
from cellulose ethanol, where the technology does not exist to create that.
Because the refiners can’t produce that amount, we are going to levy a fine
that will be passed on to the consumers. So in essence, we are again regulating
things that can be produced and insisting on legislating things that cannot be
produced. This type of thinking is very damaging long-term to our economy.”
“One final slap at the Western states is that we are restricted from
taking one tree out of our national forests in order to produce biomass,”
Pearce commented. “That thinking is completely upside down. Why would we do
that?” The bill actually prohibits the use of overgrown and unhealthy forests
on federal lands, a potentially dangerous source of wildfires, from being used
to develop biomass plants.
“The energy bill did not create any new energy for the United States,”
Pearce said. “I was opposed to it and I voted against it. This is an energy
bill that should not have been passed, should not have been signed, and I disagreed
with the President on the signing of it.”
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Pearce Stresses Business Record |
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Sunday, 20 April 2008 |
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April 20, 2008 Sunday
Pearce Stresses Business Record
As first published by the Albuquerque Journal
BY MICHAEL COLEMAN Journal Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Rep. Steve Pearce
left his successful oilfield company behind when he won a seat in
Congress six years ago, but says he still approaches his job like a
business.
"We solve problems - it goes back to my business
background," the Hobbs Republican said in a recent interview in his
Capitol Hill office, buzzing with young staffers. "We see a problem, we
visualize a solution and then we try to put a check mark by it."
Pearce, 60, hopes New Mexico voters like his businesslike approach enough to promote him to the U.S. Senate.
The
southern New Mexico congressman is running for the seat longtime Sen.
Pete Domenici, R-N.M., will give up in January. But Pearce would need
to prevail in two tough battles - a June 3 Republican primary against
Rep. Heather Wilson of Albuquerque, and a general election campaign
against Rep. Tom Udall, a Santa Fe Democrat who is unopposed in the
primary.
Pearce said the 2008 U.S. Senate race is
"extraordinarily important" for New Mexico. The state's two U.S. Senate
seats have been split between a Republican (Domenici) and a Democrat
(currently Sen. Jeff Bingaman) for more than a quarter-century.
"New
Mexicans have been satisfied with the balancing between Senator
Bingaman and Senator Domenici," Pearce said. "Senator Domenici has been
a conservative voice, and I think I would be the conservative voice
that most closely matches his stance on issues."
Can he win?
Brian
Sanderoff, a longtime New Mexico political analyst, said no one
questions Pearce's conservative credentials. The bigger question,
Sanderoff said, is whether Pearce is too conservative to win in a
statewide election.
"His personal conservative views represent
well his southern New Mexico district," Sanderoff said. "But moderate
Republicans - those who have run to the center and not the right - have
enjoyed more success in statewide campaigns."
Pearce ran for a
U.S. Senate seat in 2000, but lost the GOP primary election to former
Rep. Bill Redmond of Los Alamos, a Republican who ultimately lost to
Bingaman.
Pearce rejected the notion that his right-leaning posture can't appeal to a wide swath of voters in New Mexico.
"I'm
pretty conservative ... but I'm not limited," he said, citing
compromises he made with Democrats when he chaired the House national
parks subcommittee from 2004-2006.
For example, he said he
brokered a deal with subcommittee Democrats to use logging revenues
from Civil War battlefield timber sales to help restore the landscapes
to the way they were during the battles, instead of putting the money
in the U.S. Treasury.
Pearce said he's running on his record of
achievement in southern New Mexico and as a bulwark against what some
political observers and pollsters believe could be a tidal wave of
Democratic victories in the 2008 congressional elections.
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