press releases

WASHINGTON – On Saturday, November 11, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will deliver a speech in honor of Veterans Day at the Albuquerque Veteran’s Memorial Park. Following the speech, he will host a medal ceremony to honor the service of U.S. Marine Corps and Vietnam Veteran Antonio Sanchez.   At 11:00 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate AI Caucus, hosted Congress’ fifth and sixth AI Insight Forums, bringing together a balanced, diverse, and bipartisan group of lawmakers and experts to discuss AI and the implications for our elections and privacy.  Heinrich and his colleagues were joined by top...

WASHINGTON – During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to review President Biden’s supplemental funding request for the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) secured a commitment from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to become personally familiar with...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, and several of their congressional colleagues pressed the Biden Administration on West Bank settler violence.   “As Israel confronts the atrocities of the October 7th Hamas attacks, and threats in Gaza and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and 23 of their colleagues in sending a letter to President Joe Biden. The letter comes as the United States Senate is considering the President’s Fiscal Year 2024 Emergency Supplemental Request, which includes aid to...

WASHINGTON – At a press conference today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, was joined by Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi and several congressional colleagues to introduce the Puerto Rico Status Act, legislation that lays out a process for the people of Puerto Rico to...

WASHINGTON – A bill introduced by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) to clean up abandoned mines is gaining widespread support. The bipartisan Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act makes it easier for “Good Samaritans” such as state agencies, local governments, nonprofits, and other groups, to clean...

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, November 8, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will host a press conference with Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi and several colleagues to announce the Puerto Rico Status Act, legislation that lays out a process for the people of Puerto Rico to determine the future of the island’s political status. The legislation...

US Senator Martin Heinrich was in Pecos on Friday to thank constituents for their support to protect the Pecos Watershed from mineral development. Heinrich met with local leaders from around the Pecos Valley to discussthe bill he introducedwith Senator Ben Ray Lujan that would withdraw all federally-managed minerals in the watershed from...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement calling on Israel to reevaluate its military strategy in Gaza in response to Hamas’ October 7th terrorist attacks.   “As I’ve said repeatedly, Israel has the right to hold Hamas...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) led 56 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to emphasize several vital U.S. priorities with Israeli officials to protect innocent lives, regional stability, and American national security interests...

PECOS, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined elected officials, local leaders, and the conservation community to call for protecting the Pecos Watershed from future mining. Heinrich recently introduced the Pecos Watershed Protection Act with U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), legislation that would protect portions of the Pecos...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) welcomed the announcement from the Department of Commerce and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on the Broadband,...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate AI Caucus, hosted Congress’ third and fourth AI Insight Forums, bringing together a balanced, diverse, and bipartisan group of lawmakers and experts to discuss AI and the workforce and risks and opportunities around high-impact applications of AI, including in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, welcomed the Senate’s overwhelming bipartisan passage, 82 to 15, of the first package of the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Appropriations bills. The package included...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is welcoming the selection of the Southline Transmission Project as one of three transmission lines receiving up to $1.3 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this...

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 $235.1 million allocation to continue fulfilling settlements of Indian water rights claims using funding from the Infrastructure Law and the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate AI Caucus, is welcoming President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. “President Biden’s Executive Order is the single most significant and substantive action taken by any government to date to govern AI based on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Tierra Del Sol Housing Corporation as one of nine nonprofits nationwide to receive the Renew...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) announced that the U.S. Senate has passed a bipartisan resolution they introduced to designate November 4, 2023, as National Bison Day. "Bison have been a critical part of our culture for generations, in New Mexico, across the West, and especially in Indian Country," said...