press releases

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...

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...

CROWNPOINT, NM – On Friday, June 5, 2015, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) visited the northwestern side of New Mexico in recognition and observance of regional efforts towards veteran affairs, affordable housing and higher education. While Senator Heinrich visited Gallup to witness and experience regional progress in veteran affairs...

GALLUP — The new Gallup Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic is more than 2,000 square feet larger than the previous clinic, enabling the facility to provide care and services for about 1,155 veterans in and around Gallup. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and Rep. Ben Ray Lujn celebrated the grand opening of the facility with a ribbon...

PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich meets with students from Alamos Navajo Community school at a Constituent Coffee in Washington D.C. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced they have introduced a bill to preserve endangered Native languages. The Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act creates...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that they have reintroduced legislation to expand job opportunities and educational training for New Mexico youth through programs restoring, maintaining and preserving public lands. The Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2015 improves on the existing Public Lands...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Steve Pearce announced they have introduced the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act, a bill to provide grants to Native American language educational organizations to preserve disappearing Native...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) announced they have introduced the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act, a bill to provide grants to Native...

From left: Leroy Silva from Laguna Pueblo; Americans for Indian Opportunity Projects Assistant Danielle Romero; Dalene Coriz of Santo Domingo Pueblo; Americans for Indian Opportunity President and Founder LaDonna Harris; and Americans for Indian Opportunity Director of Leadership Initiative Brittany Simmons. High resolution photo is...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that NeighborWorks America will award three New Mexico nonprofit affordable housing organizations with a total of $833,700 in grants funded through last December’s “omnibus” appropriations bill to fund the government. The funds will be used to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced a $5.4 million loan for Mescalero Apache Telecom Inc. (MATI) to improve service for its subscribers by upgrading parts of its telecommunications system, and providing fiber optic Internet service to about half of the territory it serves. The U.S. Department of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that Santo Domingo Pueblo was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive a $210,000 grant to accelerate the Tribe's implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. This federal investment will help install a ground-mounted,...

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. - Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich heralded the Bureau of Reclamation's more than $2.2 million investment in drought relief projects in New Mexico, which was made possible by funding Udall secured in last December's "omnibus" funding bill. The funds recently released for Western drought response include $700,000...

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. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $447,748 in funding for a distance learning initiative for the Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint, N.M.  This funding, made possible through the Department of Agriculture's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, is intended to counteract high...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 13, 2014) - Today, the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness Act, a bill introduced by U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), cleared the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The bill now awaits passage by the full Senate. The Columbine-Hondo Wilderness Act, which has broad support from the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $383,152 for the Connecting Kids to Coverage project at Santo Domingo Pueblo to support increased Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment and retention among eligible children.  The grant was awarded through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

FARMINGTON, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) congratulated the Farmington community on the completion of their new Community Health Center. The facility was completed with a $5 million Affordable Care Act grant made available through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The new, state-of-the-art facility is among the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján, and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that President Obama has expanded a major disaster for the state of New Mexico for the severe storms and flooding from July 27 – August 5 to include Sandoval, Otero and Lincoln...