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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, welcomes the Senate Appropriations Committee’s bipartisan, unanimous passage of his Fiscal Year 24 (FY24) Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) announced a total of $1,504,234 in Outreach Grants from the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity Program...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, co-led the introduction of the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act. The legislation that will comprehensively address the ongoing threat posed by technology...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) announced a total of $5,277,082 for Eastern New Mexico University Roswell, New Mexico State University, and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are welcoming two federal grants totaling $1,886,809 to New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the University of New Mexico-Taos (UNM-Taos) to support technology entrepreneurs. “I’m pleased to welcome these federal investments for NMSU and UNM-Taos...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are welcoming $2.9 million in funding from the National Telecommunications Information Administration to New Mexico Highlands University to help develop the use of digital...

Washington D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) wrote to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to express strong support for New Mexico as a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the Senate passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, bipartisan legislation to lower costs, boost domestic manufacturing, strengthen domestic supply chains, and preserve American competitiveness in the 21st century: “The CHIPS and Science Act is...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is inviting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to visit New Mexico for a tour of the most pressing and unique broadband challenges, especially in Pueblos and rural and unincorporated communities. In a letter to FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel, Senator Heinrich...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 10, 2022) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, participated in a full committee hearing to examine the opportunities and challenges in using clean hydrogen. During the hearing, Senator Heinrich urged energy industry leaders and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 8, 2022) – After several recent cyberattacks in New Mexico over the last month, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is leading a request to hire and establish as soon as possible a New Mexico cybersecurity coordinator to strengthen state, local, and Tribal...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), the co-founders of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, have secured the most significant advancements for Artificial Intelligence (AI) ever included in a defense policy bill. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21 NDAA) authorizes...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ranking Member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, and co-founder of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, secured major wins for New Mexico in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021 that support New...

LAS CRUCES - In the closing weeks of the 116th Congress, New Mexico's congressional delegation in Washington celebrated the completion Thursday of a $740.5 billion compromise defense bill for 2021.  The conference bill reconciles versions previously passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Among the 53 House conferees was...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that the Department of the Air Force is naming Albuquerque as a finalist for the location of the new...

Today, we’re facing the greatest public health and economic crises in our lifetimes. Meeting the full scale of the challenges we face will require big thinking and big solutions. In short, this moment demands that we invest in innovation. Our country has a long history of discovering and developing solutions to the world’s most...

As someone with a background in mechanical engineering, I always believe we need to rely on science as we create solutions to the problems we face. The COVID-19 pandemic is a problem on a scale that most of us have never faced before. Many of the world’s brightest scientists are discovering new information about the virus every day. It is by...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) have introduced the Tribal Connect Act, legislation to improve broadband connectivity in Indian Country. The bicameral, bipartisan bill would increase access to...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) applaud nearly $2.3 million in combined awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to New Mexico universities for fellowships...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) led a bicameral group of lawmakers calling out the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for shortchanging Tribes on the Tribal broadband application deadline. In a letter to the FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the...