press releases

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced a resolution recognizing the heritage, culture, and contributions of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women in the United States. This resolution...

WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined the full Senate in voting 65-32 for an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government. The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the bill, and the president signed...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and Mayor Tim Keller will host a Public Safety and Consumer Protection Fair on Tuesday, April 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center in Albuquerque, N.M. This event is part of their ongoing efforts to promote public safety and consumer protection in New Mexico. Over a dozen...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M), vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) urged Senate leaders to prioritize robust, direct funding to Tribal communities to address the ongoing opioid epidemic in Native American communities. According to the Centers for Disease Control...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the face of the opioid epidemic that is ravaging communities and gun violence that is endangering the health and wellbeing of America’s youth, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is calling for stronger federal investments that enhance student health and safety. In a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 2 p.m. MT/ 4 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, will deliver remarks at the National Association of Counties Briefing on Tackling Multigenerational Cycles of Poverty and discuss how counties can work with federal partners...

SANTA FE, N.M. –  Today, February 23, at 3 p.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas will host a press event at CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe with local community organizations, elected officials, and county representatives to discuss the...

On Tuesday, as teenagers swarmed the Florida legislature to advocate for gun control, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) renewed a familiar call for Congress to repeal an amendment that blocks the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding research into the public health effects of gun...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) called for repeal of the Dickey Amendment - a policy enacted in 1996 that restricts the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from researching gun violence and its effects on public health. "Our country is infuriated by the lack of action taken by Congress to combat the gun...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management announced that it is proposing to replace the 2016 rule to limit the waste of taxpayer-owned natural gas on public lands. In New Mexico alone, over $100 million in taxpayer-owned natural...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined a bipartisan group of 65 senators calling on Senate leadership to immediately reauthorize funding for community health centers. In a letter led by U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), the senators expressed their strong support for community health...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) marked the 25th Anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) by cosponsoring the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, or FAMILY Act, that would create a comprehensive paid family and medical leave program. The United States is the only industrialized nation without a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement tonight after President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Senator Heinrich's special guest this evening was Ivonne Orozco-Acosta, Dreamer and 2018 New Mexico Teacher of the Year from Albuquerque,...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham urged the president not to alter to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in ways that would prohibit New Mexicans in need from accessing...

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich issued the following statement after voting against the Republican tax bill in the Senate: “Today Republicans have made it clear where their priorities stand. They’ve abandoned working American families while recklessly blowing up the deficit in order to reward their wealthy friends and corporations with a...

The Trump administration’s “tax reform” proposal, which is now moving forward in Congress, will give away massive tax breaks to wealthy individuals and special interests at the expense of working families and rural communities across America. This plan fails to offer rural communities like Silver City and Deming the solutions they...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) a announced the Department of Veterans Affairs will make specialized medical care more accessible for veterans in Alamogordo by giving them the option to seek...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement in honor of Veterans Day. Senator Heinrich will commemorate Veterans Day tomorrow, November 11, at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Day Parade in Las Cruces, N.M. “Today and every day, I join communities across New Mexico and our nation in offering sincere...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Oct. 26, 2017) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement regarding President Trump’s order to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency: “The opioid and heroin addiction epidemic is a national crisis that has been deeply felt by New Mexicans. Too many families have lost loved...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - To address a number of critical shortcomings in our nation’s approach to combating the opioid epidemic, including the Administration’s unwillingness to make a long-term investment in the fight, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Bob Casey (D-PA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Bob Menendez (D-NJ),...