In Congress, I will continue the work to get big money out of politics, for campaign finance reform at all levels, to improve our agencies and oversight, and elevate the voices of everyday New Mexicans.
Continue working to get big money out of politics, advance campaign finance reform, improve agencies and oversight, and elevate everyday New Mexicans' voices.
Occurrences
lifting up the voices of New Mexicans
That means fighting to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, securing our elections, getting big money out of politics, and ensuring that we continue to organize and mobilize and show up to exercise our rights, now more than ever.
Evidence
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Rep. Stansbury said she has been a leader in good government, transparency, and modernization, and that she would work on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability to defend democracy, demand accountability, and uphold democratic institutions. The release says the committee has authority to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse by the government.
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Stansbury introduced the Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act of 2025, described as creating an Office of the Inspector General to ensure accountability for Supreme Court justices and to counter influence from political mega donors. The bill also requires reports to Congress and the Attorney General and authorizes investigations of ethics violations.
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Stansbury and Senator Warren introduced the SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform (SEER) Act to strengthen transparency and ethics requirements for Special Government Employees. The office release frames the bill as an anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability measure.
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Stansbury joined Senators Warren and Blumenthal in pressing major companies over settlement money that may have gone to Trump’s future presidential library fund, saying the public deserved answers about the whereabouts of the funds and whether the contributions were used as tax write-offs.
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Stansbury led a letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management demanding information about the Trump Administration’s purging of federal workers and asking for agency-level details, including terminations and reductions in force.
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Congress.gov shows H.R. 5237, the Campaign Transparency Act, with status Introduced. The bill would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate thresholds for reporting the identification of persons making contributions to political committees for federal elections.
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Stansbury reintroduced the Buffalo Tract Protection Act alongside Senator Heinrich, describing it as an effort to permanently withdraw minerals from development on certain BLM lands and protect public lands from outside interests.
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Move to Amend reported that on August 31, 2026, Rep. Melanie Stansbury joined as a cosponsor of H.J.Res. 54, the We the People Amendment, described as aimed at ending corporate constitutional rights and the doctrine that money spent to influence elections is protected speech.
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Source New Mexico reported that Stansbury said new information about Project Jupiter water usage raised serious transparency concerns, that she had asked state agencies for a clear public accounting, and that she intended to ask for additional investigation.
Assessments
Stansbury has taken repeated same-term actions aligned with the pledge, including introducing or supporting ethics, transparency, oversight, and campaign-finance-related measures, serving on oversight work, sending oversight letters, and pressing public transparency inquiries. However, the record provided does not show enacted campaign finance reform, a completed structural reduction of big-money influence, or a finalized agency/oversight reform outcome attributable to her. The promise is therefore partially fulfilled through substantial continued work and material advancement, but not fully delivered as a completed policy result.
The promise is ongoing and multi-part: get big money out of politics, advance campaign-finance reform, improve agencies and oversight, and elevate everyday New Mexicans' voices. The evidence shows Stansbury materially worked on these goals in office through introducing or backing ethics and transparency bills, serving on Oversight, conducting agency oversight, and pressing corporations and officials for transparency. Examples include the Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act of 2025, the SEER Act, the Campaign Transparency Act, and oversight letters to OPM and major companies. However, the record provided does not show enacted campaign-finance reform or a completed outcome meaningfully achieving the broader pledge to get big money out of politics. Because there is substantial same-term effort and some concrete advancement, but no clear final delivery of the promised reforms, partial credit is the best fit.