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Collins confirmed: The Senate on Friday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Tracie Collins as secretary of the state Department of Health by a 38-1 vote, with Sen. Craig Brandt, R-Rio Rancho, casting the lone dissenting vote.
Brandt said he sent Collins two separate letters and never received a response.
“I do not believe that the lack of response is good policy, a good way to run the department,” he said, adding Collins said during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Rules Committee she had never received the letters.
During the committee hearing and then on the Senate floor, lawmakers praised Collins as highly qualified to run the department, which has been at the forefront of the state’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Elizabeth Whitefield, a longtime family law judge and attorney, advocated for a law that would allow terminally ill patients to seek help from a doctor to end their life. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. One by one, they told stories of the painful ways in which loved ones died, the butchery of it all, the screaming, the indignity, the helplessness of final days, the relief that only came through ugly death.
Saturday, as the chill of a polar vortex descended outside, the state House Judiciary Committee took testimony via Zoom on a bill that if passed could allow terminally ill patients to die in a way less cold, less cruel.