press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) introduced S.830, the LDRD Enhancement Act of 2015, a bill to increase the maximum percentage each laboratory director may set aside for Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) from 6 to 10 percent of the lab's budget. The U.S. Department of Energy's...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 18, 2015) - U. S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced S. 784, the Microlab Technology Commercialization Act, a bill to accelerate technology transfer by establishing off-campus microlabs that would serve as the "front-door"...

New Mexico has deep roots in developing space technology and contributing to our nation’s space program. At a time when few Americans recognized the true potential of rocketry, physicist Robert Goddard moved to Roswell to conduct his research in 1930. While living there, he developed various new rocket systems, and launched the first flight...

SANTA FE, N.M. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) addressed a joint session of the New Mexico Legislature where he discussed leveling the playing field for hard-working New Mexico families and diversifying the state's economy. In his remarks, Senator Heinrich focused on the need to work together in building a two-generation approach to...

WASHINGTON, D.C (March 4, 2015) - During a Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) discussed the importance of funding for the U.S. Department of Energy's Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. A list of today's witnesses can be found here. Senator Heinrich is...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced $6.4 million for the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) program in the Air Force's fiscal year 2016 budget request, which still must be approved by Congress. For the past three years, the Air...

Former Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan addressed a standing room only crowd during a celebration for the newly created Manhattan Project National Historic Park at Mesa Public Library on Saturday. Heather McClenahan, who is executive director of the Los Alamos Historical Society and served as the...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U. S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will join senior Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) officials on Friday, February 13, to announce the release of an economic impact report conducted by the University of New Mexico's Bureau of Business and Economic Research. The study...

New Mexico has a long history of military service and maintaining our national security. Our state is home to several major military installations – White Sands Missile Range, Holloman Air Force Base, Fort Bliss, Cannon Air Force Base and Kirtland Air Force Base – and two national laboratories as well as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps. Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, along with the University of New Mexico, announced that the Department of Defense has selected a team that includes UNM as a finalist for the administration's...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A long-stalled New Mexico energy project has finally gotten the green light from the feds. It’s a power transmission line backers believe will bring thousands of jobs to the state. The Obama administration is calling the $2 billion transmission line a win for the state’s economy and the...

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, and U.S. Congressman Ben Ray Luján.  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment Katherine Hammack,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), released the following statement tonight after President Obama's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress: "Tonight, the president laid out a clear vision to increase opportunities for all Americans and strengthen our middle class. While our nation's economy is progressing,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is cosponsoring net neutrality legislation that would help prevent the creation of a two-tiered Internet system by requiring the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ban so-called "paid prioritization" agreements between a broadband provider and a content provider.  Introduction of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich joined the full Senate in voting 56-40 for a so-called “omnibus” appropriations bill to fund the government, including critical New Mexico programs, through September 2015, the end of the Fiscal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced S. 2973, the National Laboratory Technology Maturation Act. The bill would launch a new National Laboratory Technology Maturation Program (NLTMP) at the U.S. Department of Energy to facilitate successful...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced a bill (S. 2947) to remove barriers to creating a cleaner, more consumer-friendly electric grid. The bill clarifies that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has the legal authority to require...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) has introduced a bill aimed at funding "microlabs" that would be used to give businesses access to equipment and personnel at national laboratories. Heinrich said the idea is to spur the transfer of technology from the labs to the marketplace. "If we are going to realize the true potential of technology...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced S. 2932, the Microlab Technology Commercialization Act of 2014, a bill to accelerate technology transfer by establishing off-campus microlabs that would serve as the "front-door" to national laboratories. The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement today after Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Mojave Desert during a test flight. The crash resulted in the death of one pilot and injured a second: "My thoughts and prayers go out to the pilots of SpaceShipTwo and their families during this...