Commentary: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are requesting that
New Mexico Congressional Delegation Demands Review Of Air Force Basing Decision For U.S. Space Command
Congressional Delegation News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are requesting that the Biden administration conduct a comprehensive review of the Air Force’s decision in the final days of the Trump administration to host the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Huntsville, Ala. – over several final contenders including Albuquerque.
In a letter to President Joe Biden, the lawmakers express concerns that the Air Force’s selection process raises serious questions of political impropriety and demonstrates clear violations of the Air Force’s own standardized process for selecting locations to host organizations of this size.
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Albuquerque has some very important visitors today. And although the visit by representatives of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force is unfortunately limited to a virtual tour due to the pandemic, the visit has the potential of changing the landscape of the Duke City and New Mexico for the better for a hundred years or more.
Albuquerque is on the short list of six cities being considered to permanently host the new headquarters for U.S. Space Command. And the stakes are high.
The new Space Command is expected to bring more than a thousand civilian and military jobs to the selected city, with potentially billions of dollars of economic activity for the region and untold private-sector contracts. Space Command is now temporarily at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. In addition to Peterson AFB and our own Kirtland Air Force Base, the other contenders are Air Force bases in Florida, Nebraska, Alabama and Texas. A