press releases

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján welcomed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to add the Bonita Peak Mining District in Colorado's San Juan County - home to the Gold King Mine - to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The lawmakers have...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that New Mexico will receive $2,604,223 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve access to potentially life-saving treatment and prevention programs for people addicted to prescription opioids. In 2014, New Mexico had the second-highest rate of...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be in Doña Ana County on August 24 and 25 to address food insecurity, childcare, veteran homelessness, and promote small business opportunities in southern New Mexico. On Wednesday afternoon, Senator Heinrich will participate in the ribbon cutting for La Semilla's Farm Fresh...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is providing New Mexicans with critical resources and raising awareness about the health threat posed by the Zika virus. Today, he launched a Zika Resource Center on his website to provide information about the virus and tools to help New Mexicans stay healthy. “While the Zika...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As more Americans contract the Zika virus, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan urging the Republican leaders to immediately call Congress back into session to pass emergency funding legislation to address the growing Zika...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), which passed the Senate last night by a vote of 92-2. He cosponsored the legislation to provide a series of incentives and resources designed to encourage states and local communities to pursue a full array of proven strategies to...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with researchers in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center and was briefed on their work to combat the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne infectious diseases.  "Zika is a public health emergency that requires a real...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will meet with researchers in the Division of Infectious Diseases and be briefed on their work at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center on Saturday, July 2 in Albuquerque. The meeting will focus on the research underway in New Mexico to combat the Zika virus and other...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined a bipartisan coalition calling for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promptly end the discriminatory blood donation deferral policy for men who have sex with men (MSM).  The bipartisan letter was sent in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Pulse...

(PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich with (left to right) Dr. Kathleen Schmeler, Director of MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas; Dr. Terry Box, Associate Professor and Director of Project ECHO, University of Utah; Dr. John Scott, Medical Director of Telehealth, University of Washington; and Dr. Sanjeev Arora, Director, Project ECHO,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich this week joined Senate Democrats in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran calling for immediate passage of President Obama’s emergency supplemental funding request of $1.9 billion for prevention and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the following statement after New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas cleared the remaining providers in the Behavioral Health Investigation of fraud: "Every single one of the providers that the State...

Laws often resemble the proverbial barn door, which is shut after the horses have run away or been stolen. Many statutes address a crisis that is already over. Even so, it’s important to prevent repeat mistakes, which is the intent of a federal bill supported by all of the Democrats in New Mexico’s congressional delegation. They want to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham introduced the Medicaid Program Integrity Enhancement Act of 2016. The bill protects Medicaid patients by establishing clear guidelines that ensure that state agencies investigating allegations of fraud do so in a manner that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted against legislation that would prevent states from setting clear rules regarding labeling on food packaging for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The legislation received a 48 to 49 vote, failing to gain the required 60 votes to advance. Senator Heinrich supports requiring a...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced more than $1.7 million for five health centers and treatment providers in New Mexico to improve and expand the delivery of substance abuse services, with a particular focus on the treatment of opioid abuse in underserved communities. The grants, funded under the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted to pass S.524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), a bill he cosponsored to provide a series of incentives and resources designed to encourage states and local communities to pursue a full array of proven strategies to combat and treat prescription opioid abuse...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2016) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) delivered a speech on the Senate floor to address the national epidemic of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use and its impact on New Mexico. He shared stories of New Mexicans he met from the Española Valley who have battled through addiction. Senator Heinrich is a...

GALLUP — The city of Gallup has extended its contract with Na’Nizhoozhi Center Inc. for operation of the detox center through the end of the fiscal year. NCI’s contract ran from Oct. 2 to Feb. 29, and the new four-month extension will keep doors open until June 30. City Attorney George Kozeliski said the city will put out a...

WASHINGTON, D.C . - Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell calling for a thorough investigation of the findings in the Attorney General's report on the New Mexico Human Services Department's...