press releases

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that 50 local airports across New Mexico will receive over $25.2 million in federal grants to sustain critical operations...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined a bipartisan group of 39 senators in a letter calling on Senate leadership to include strong support for victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in future legislation to address the...

ALBUQUERQUE – On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hosted a teleconference with hundreds of small business owners and nonprofit leaders across New Mexico to assist them in accessing new funding included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The new law contains major provisions to provide relief to...

The 90-day comment period on the draft revised Gila National Forest management plan will end Thursday, despite requests from citizens and congressional leaders that Gila National Forest Supervisor Adam Mendonca extend the deadline in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the effect that closures of places like local libraries — where...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined a bipartisan group of senators in urging the Trump administration to provide relief for local farmers who are struggling as the nation combats the spread of COVID-19. In a letter sent to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Xochitl Torres Small are raising concerns with the U.S. Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich are raising serious concerns about the Trump administration’s lack of transparancy and reliance on private companies to distribute desperately needed medical supplies during the Coronavirus pandemic. Although the President has declared a national emergency and mobilized the...

New Mexico’s small towns could be getting federal relief funding as communities wrangle with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, leading to closure of local businesses and increased need for medical supplies to treat the virus and track its spread. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) announced on Monday that he planned to introduce the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that he will introduce the Coronavirus Community Relief Act. This legislation would provide $250 billion in stabilization funds geared towards localities with populations under 500,000 that are struggling in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities across the United...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined 44 Senate Democrats in a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and the Coronavirus Task Force, as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), urging them to publicize a comprehensive and transparent plan to conduct a national inventory of the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) sent a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Peter T. Gaynor outlining significant concerns about the public health and economic impacts that the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak is having on tribal communities in New Mexico....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Xochitl Torres Small are raising concerns with Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Matthew T. Albence over reports that ICE detention facilities in New Mexico are not fully prepared to manage...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.), announced that an estimated 1,793 New Mexico health care providers will receive more than $169,486,132 to...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released over $15...

CHAPARRAL, New Mexico -- Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation called Friday for the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to review the circumstances surrounding two coronavirus cases at the agency's facility in Chaparral. "We are deeply troubled that an employee and migrant have both contracted Covid-19 at the Otero...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today held a teleconference with New Mexico-based reporters to answer questions and discuss the latest on efforts to assist New Mexicans impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. A recording of Senator Heinrich’s remarks can be found HERE. Senator Heinrich's as prepared for delivery are...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement calling for bipartisan support for future COVID-19 relief legislation to include stabilization funding geared towards localities with populations under 500,000. “Small and rural communities in New Mexico either will face, or have already faced, enormous...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with a bipartisan group of 20 Senators, sent a letter urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider the needs of rural hospitals and hospitals with high percentages of Medicaid and Medicare patients as HHS distributes the $100 billion healthcare fund...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with a bipartisan group of 33 Senators, sent a letter calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to waive or modify interest rates for health care providers who’ve sought financial assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic through Medicare’s Accelerated...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Sen. Martin Heinrich said Thursday that the next two weeks will be critical for New Mexico-- as the state battles a COVID-19 outbreak. “I’m going to put it real simply and very bluntly: The behavior of all of us today will determine how many people will die tomorrow. That is literally what we are facing," Heinrich...