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Senate Democrats have introduced legislation that aims to increase access to affordable post-secondary education for low- to moderate-income students through Pell Grants. The Middle Class Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically, or CHANCE Act, Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) unveiled...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii)introduced S.1998, the Middle Class Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically (CHANCE) Act, a bill to increase access to affordable post-secondary education for low- to moderate-income students. The bill would...

LAS CRUCES >> U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, visited Las Cruces on Monday, promoting a new proposal he says will help counter child and family poverty in New Mexico. Heinrich said he was gathering feedback for what will become a federal bill called the Two Generation Economic Empowerment Act. The goal, he said, is to streamline federal...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to Las Cruces on Monday, August 10, to discuss Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education and health care technology initiatives at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and tour the campus' NASA Aerospace Education Lab. Senator Heinrich will also host an outreach...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will bring together families, local service providers, and administrators from across New Mexico for outreach sessions to discuss a two-generation approach to creating economic opportunities and addressing the needs of both vulnerable children and their parents. In Las Cruces, Albuquerque,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, during a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources markup hearing, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) advocated for legislation to promote renewable energy development on public lands, community solar, and reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The hearing was held to consider...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement today after the 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book, released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ranked New Mexico as 49th in the nation for child well-being. The report ranked all 50 states on 16 indicators that fall into the categories of economic well-being,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced 13 grants totaling more than $3.3 million to fund the TRIO Student Support Services program, which helps provide additional support for low-income and first-generation college students, as well as students with disabilities. College...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted to pass S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and overhaul the country's current K-12 education law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The bill passed the senate by a vote of 81 to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that West Las Vegas School District is receiving more than $8.2 million for Head Start programs to serve 172 children. The funding is provided through a new grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) spent Wednesday afternoon getting his hands dirty in Bandelier National Monument. Heinrich worked two hours with a preservation crew composed entirely of Puebloan youth who are helping to restore Tyuonyi Pueblo on the Main Loop Trail. The Bandelier Preservation crew is a pilot program sponsored by AmeriCorps and the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) participated in a restoration service project with the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps' Hands-On-Preservation Experience (HOPE) Crew at Bandelier National Monument. The HOPE Crew program links preservation projects to the national youth corps movement. It brings the potential for thousands of crew...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to northern New Mexico tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1, to tour and discuss tribal education at the Santa Fe Indian School and participate in a restoration project with Rocky Mountain Youth Corps members at Bandelier National Monument.  The Santa Fe Indian School is a...

LISTEN: ‎http://kunm.org/post/heinrich-introduce-new-poverty-legislation#stream/0 U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich announced Monday that he will propose legislation to address poverty across multiple generations.  As many as 30 percent of children in New Mexico live in poverty. Part of what makes improving that statistic hard,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to Santa Fe on Wednesday, July 1, to discuss tribal education and tour the Santa Fe Indian School. The school is a sovereign educational community, building upon its rich cultural legacy to be the leader in Native American education.  Senator Heinrich will be briefed on the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Monday, June 29, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be in Albuquerque to highlight the clean energy economy, participate in the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Ribbon Cutting and Groundbreaking, and deliver a speech at the New Mexico Voices for Children Annual KIDS COUNT Conference. Senator Heinrich will start...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) delivered a speech on the Senate floor today to highlight the success of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program President Obama announced three years ago that has offered temporary deportation relief and work authorization to more than 660,000 undocumented young...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, has introduced an amendment to the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would authorize $25 million for the Department of Defense's (DOD) STARBASE education program.  The STARBASE Program allows...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) discussed measures he has sponsored to boost tech transfer, create an energy workforce development program, and establish a national energy storage standard. These bills include S.784, the Microlab Technology...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will participate in a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, June 9, at 9:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. MT on energy accountability and reform legislation.  This is the final hearing before the committee leaders begin their work on comprehensive...