press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, June 22, 2018, U.S Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to the Southwest border to hold the Trump Administration accountable for their inhumane policy of separating children from their parents at the border. The senators will visit the site of the temporary tent city for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, June 12 at 5 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will help showcase an art exhibit featuring photographs by International League of Conservation Photographer Krista Schlyer on the Southwest borderlands that will be on display this week in the Russell Senate Office Building...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement in honor of Pride Month, which is celebrated during the month of June:  “I am proud to stand with New Mexico's LGBTQ community and recommit to the effort to advance equality for every single American, no matter who they are or who they...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Navajo Nation Treaty of 1868: "The Navajo Nation Treaty represents an unending promise from the United States to honor the sovereignty, self-governance, and ancestral homeland of the Navajo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted to reverse President Trump and the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) repeal of net neutrality rules that protect a free and open internet. The bipartisan resolution to save net neutrality passed the Senate by a vote of 52 to 47. Without congressional action, net...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s (D-N.M.) Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act passed unanimously in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and is now eligible for consideration in the full Senate. The bipartisan bill would prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties for...

On today's Wake-Up Call, host Tom Trowbridge features Senator Martin Heinrich’s questioning of President Trump’s choice for CIA Director. Also: KSFR's John Shannon reports on an artist who’s working with prosecutors to stop native art and jewelry counterfeiting; Ellen Lockyer has an update from Wednesday's Santa Fe...

WASHINGTON — A day after Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the C.I.A., refused during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday to condemn the agency’s torture of Qaeda suspects, several lawmakers and human-rights advocates said aspects of her testimony merited greater scrutiny. While Ms. Haspel, the agency’s acting...

WASHINGTON — Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, told lawmakers on Wednesday that she would not restart the agency’s defunct torture program if confirmed to head the CIA — but she refused to weigh in on the morality of the program. Asked several times whether she thought the so-called “enhanced...

Gina Haspel, President Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, told Senators Wednesday that she would not reinstate the brutal torture program the agency ran at black sites after 9/11, pledging to put her moral beliefs ahead of any immoral orders. “I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that I thought was immoral, even if it was...

Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich (N.M.) said Monday he will not support Gina Haspel to be President Trump’s new CIA director. "This is about trust, and the public is not being afforded an open and honest debate about the nominee," Heinrich told NBC News. "There are questions that absolutely need to be answered publicly, and...

Eight months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s power grid, causing the largest blackout in U.S. history, more than 98 percent of the people have their power back. The remaining two percent may have to wait a while. Though about 23,000 of the 1.47 million customers remain without power, U.S. officials said Tuesday they plan on...

One summer night in the late 1980s, Gina Haspel, a young CIA field officer on her first overseas assignment, found herself standing outside a hotel in Addis Ababa talking to Jimmy Carter. The former president was visiting Ethiopia to foster peace talks between the government and Eritrean rebels and urgently needed to get word to a...

FARMINGTON — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and Aztec Police Department Chief Mike Heal met during the senator’s visit to the Four Corners this past week to discuss school safety and security efforts, and potential action. “I met with a number of students from Aztec a few weeks ago who came back to Washington, D.C.,"...

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 — 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...

Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat seeking reelection to a second term, just tweeted his support for marijuana legalization. “It’s time to legalize marijuana,” the senator tweeted. The senator’s new policy position comes on April 20 – or 4/20 – which has become known as an unofficial national...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined calls led by all of the currently serving women Senators of both parties for the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders to bring legislation to the Senate floor to reform how Congress handles cases of sexual harassment. On March 28, the women of the Senate...

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...