Beliefs and Other Work
Montoya also worked on behalf of civil rights, education, health care, alien workers. In the health-care area he supported medicare, medicaid, and introduced a bill to provide bilingual training for those in the health care professions. Montoya also supported environmental protection and programs to assist the elderly. His positions on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and the Senate Appropriations Committee allowed him to have a strong influence on maintenance of the federal installations in New Mexico.
In 1976 Montoya was defeated by Republican Harrison Schmitt by over 16 points.
Montoya spent the next two years primarily helping Senator Pete Domenici to keep the federal installations in New Mexico open. Montoya died in Washington, D.C. at the age of 62.
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