press releases

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to Albuquerque on Friday, November 6, to highlight small business development and attend the La Cosecha 20th Annual Dual Language Conference. On Friday afternoon, Senator Heinrich will tour the Villa Myriam coffee roasting facility, a family owned small business in Albuquerque....

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, participated in a forum last night hosted by The Atlantic on the future of energy in America. Washington Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons moderated the conversation at The Watergate in Washington, D.C. with Senator Heinrich, Siemens...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) have sent a letter, cosigned by the majority of the Senate, to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Harry Reid urging them to take up and pass legislation to reauthorize the Federal Perkins Student Loan Program. This critical lifeline...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Tuesday, November 3, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will be a guest speaker at an event hosted by The Atlantic. The event is part of a series called "Atlantic Exchanges" that offer insights and perspectives from leading voices of energy,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement after voting in favor of the bipartisan budget agreement: "While it's not perfect, this two-year bipartisan budget agreement provides a reasonable blueprint for investing in America's future. The agreement reaffirms the fact that America always pays its bills....

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined in a letter led by U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter outlining their concerns over reports of significant harm to the finances and credit of active servicemembers while...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the Pueblo of Laguna will receive a $1 million grant to help complete a network of bike and pedestrian routes. The grant, awarded through the U.S. Department of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) are continuing their push for reforms that would help all families access quality child care in New Mexico and across the country. The senators announced that they are backing a resolution outlining principles for how Congress...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) are continuing their push for reforms that would help all families access quality child care in New Mexico and across the country. The senators announced that they are backing a resolution outlining principles for how Congress...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Steve Pearce and Ben Ray Luján announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded $15,210,143 for the Southwest Chief Route Advancement and Improvement Project to continue essential upgrades to Amtrak’s...

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has awarded a $15.2 million TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant for the Amtrak Southwest Chief Route Advancement and Improvement Project. According to a grant notification sent to U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and others, “The Southwest Chief Route Advancement and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján responded to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Technical Evaluation of the Gold King Mine Incident. The report found that responsibility for the mine blowout, which spilled 3 million gallons of wastewater into rivers in New Mexico...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Dean Heller (R-NV) led a group of senators to introduce a bill to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA). Before it expired in 2011, FLTFA allowed the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to confirm Victoria Marie Baecher Wassmer to be Under Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy and Cherry Ann Murray to be Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) focused his questions to the nominees on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced more than $1.8 million in grants for the San Juan College School of Energy, the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments and the Navajo Nation Government to help diversify the economy in Northwest New Mexico and create new jobs in economically sustainable industries...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement today after voting against S.2146, a bill to punish sanctuary cities by withholding federal law enforcement funding: "This bill fails to offer pragmatic reforms needed to fix our broken immigration system, while jeopardizing critical funding for public...

SANTA FE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to northern New Mexico on Monday, October 12, and Tuesday, October 13 to visit ¡YouthWorks! in Santa Fe and participate in a school assembly at Mora High School. On Monday afternoon, Senator Heinrich will tour the ¡YouthWorks! facility in Santa Fe and highlight the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KRQE) – It’s a New Mexico staple. Every year farmers harvest thousands of tons of chile and and every year, the industry brings in hundred of thousands of dollars for the state. Yet, some companies are capitalizing off New Mexico’s good name. Now, lawmakers are stepping in to put it to a stop. The word...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and tribal, state and local officials to celebrate the Valles Caldera National Preserve, one of the America’s newest additions to the National Park Service. Former U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, who attended the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Steve Pearce and Ben Ray Luján welcomed passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of the Albuquerque Indian School Land Transfer Act. The bill, which previously passed in the U.S. Senate, now heads to President Obama for his...