press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) released the following statement in response to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) recommended alternative for recapitalization of plutonium pit...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, joined Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Committee members U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) to release the Committee’s unclassified...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned Gina Haspel during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmation hearing on her nomination to become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). VIDEO: Heinrich Questions CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel In Senate Intel Committee Hearing During the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - After reviewing the investigation report written by U.S. Attorney and former special prosecutor John Durham regarding the destruction of videotapes by the CIA, known as the Durham report, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Angus King (I-Maine), and Kamala...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement on President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known as the Iran deal: “The President just handed...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 7:30 a.m. MT/ 9:30 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will participate in a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmation hearing on the nomination of Gina Haspel to become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The hearing will begin in open...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats requesting that all Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) information related to any involvement Gina Haspel may have had in the CIA’s...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing today on the Department of Defense budget, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned Defense Secretary James Mattis, Under Secretary Of Defense David Norquist and Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford on ensuring transparency and justification for the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after voting against the confirmation of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Mike Pompeo as the new Secretary of State: “As the nation's top diplomat, the Secretary of State needs to be a beacon of our fundamental American values for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Democratic senators on Wednesday stepped up their demands for more information about the former undercover spy President Donald Trump has picked to lead the CIA, and said the public has a right to know about her role in the harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists after 9/11 as well as other “disturbing facts...

The CIA has refused to declassify information about Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to be the agency’s next director, infuriating Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee who have questioned her suitability for the role. “It’s unacceptable for the CIA to hide [Haspel] behind a wall of secrecy, particularly when...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released the following statement about the CIA’s refusal to make public information about Gina Haspel, nominee to head the CIA. The senators have written multiple requests to Haspel and CIA asking for...

The CIA is proposing to let senators weighing Gina Haspel's nomination to lead the spy agency view classified material about her record in a secure setting, an offer quickly dismissed as insufficient by Democrats seeking more transparency about Haspel's past. The CIA released a disciplinary memo late last week that absolved Haspel, a longtime...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing today on the U.S. Air Force budget and priorities, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) advocated for transferring HH-60G aircraft to New Mexico’s Air National Guard “Tacos” and increasing R&D funding at Air Force Research Lab. VIDEO: Heinrich Urges Air Force...

Applied Technology Associates, an Albuquerque-based engineering firm, has been awarded an $11.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force, Sen. Martin Heinrich announced Monday. The contract will be used for a "ground-based, multi-aperture space imaging system." “Applied Technology Associates is a great example of a homegrown...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, welcomed an announcement from the U.S. Air Force that it will award a $11.9 million contract to Albuquerque-based Applied Technology Associates (ATA) for a ground-based, multi-aperture space imaging system. “Applied Technology Associates...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Applied Technology Associates of Albuquerque has won an $11.9 million contract with the Air Force for a ground-based space imaging system, Sen. Martin Heinrich announced Monday. The company specializes in precision measurement, sensing and control technology. It provides services and products primarily for the defense and...

WASHINGTON — Central Intelligence Agency operatives have long run covert influence campaigns overseas. Now, the agency is mounting an unusually active, not very secret campaign in Washington. The C.I.A. is trying to ensure its deputy director, Gina Haspel, a career spy, is confirmed as its next director. Almost every detail of her life and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the Committee will hold an open confirmation hearing on Wednesday, May 9th, 2018, on the nomination of Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence (CIA) Agency Gina...

James Comey has had a whole lot to say for the past week: in the 290 pages of his book, A Higher Loyalty, and in interviews with everyone from George Stephanopoulos to Stephen Colbert to the women of The View. And Comey has a riveting story to tell, one that adds novelistic detail and self-justifying...