Heather Wilson
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"Heather Ann Wilson" is President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former United States Republican Party/Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress.

While in Congress, Wilson focused on national security issues, serving on the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the United States House Committee on Armed Services. She also focused on health care, energy, manufacturing and trade, and telecommunication, serving on the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

She opted not to run for re-election to the House in 2008 and sought the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Senator Pete Domenici but finished second in the Republican primary to Congressman Steve Pearce (politician)/Steve Pearce, who then lost the United States Senate election in New Mexico, 2008/general election to Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat Tom Udall. On March 7, 2011, she announced another run for Senate in 2012 to replace retiring Senator Jeff Bingaman, but lost the general election to Martin Heinrich, her successor in the House of Representatives.

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Some people will get low cost or no cost prescription drugs based on their incomes. I cannot urge people strongly enough to fill out the form, mail it in and take advantage of this benefit.

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.

A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.

There's a growing awareness that Katrina has changed not only the agenda but all the circumstances we find ourselves in.

Thus far our strategy has failed to achieve our political objectives.

The government cannot create wealth, but it can create the environment ... for prosperity.

What happened today was the act of cowards. Often people who do these things scurry back into the gutters they came from. I can say with confidence that we will spare no effort to track down and punish those responsible. It's important for the world to know that our nation will not bow to terrorists and faceless acts of cowardice.

Now is not the time to be simultaneously going forward with a bill on taxes and Medicaid.

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.