press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the Air Force has awarded a $7.4 million contract to Albuquerque’s Stellar Science Ltd. Co. to support research and development into directed energy at Kirtland Air Force Base. Kirtland is home to the Air Force...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced that Sipapu Recreational Development in Vadito and the Academy for Technology and the Classics Foundation in Santa Fe will each receive more than $4.2 million in guaranteed loans to advance their operations. Sipapu...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $65,000 in federal grant funding to improve public television reception in rural areas of McKinley County. The grant, made available by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Public Television Digital Transition Grant Program, will allow New Mexico PBS to replace...

Eleven community colleges in New Mexico — including UNM’s four branch campuses — will split $15 million in federal funding to develop innovative training programs in partnership with local businesses to direct New Mexican adults into the workforce. This funding allows colleges across New Mexico to provide students and workers with...

PHOTO: (from left) Los Alamos Commerce & Development Chairman Bill Wadt, Sen. Heinrich, Los Alamos Cooperative Market General Manager Steve Watts, and U.S. Represenatative Ben Ray Luján at 2014 Google eCity Award event in Los Alamos. LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- Today, at a public event at the Los Alamos Co+op Market, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich...

PHOTO: Senator Heinrich with members of Comunidades en Acción y de Fé (CAFé) at Mountain View Market in Las Cruces.  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (Oct. 16. 2014) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) visited the Mountain View Market in Las Cruces today to talk about the importance of raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 for...

TAOS, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, will travel to the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness Study Area on Friday, October 17, 2014. Senator Heinrich will join the U.S. Forest Service, regional stakeholders, and local officials on a hike into the Columbine Hondo to discuss...

(PHOTO: U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.-01), Bernalillo County Commissioner Art De La Cruz, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southwest Regional Director Dr. Benjamin Tuggle, and Mountain View Neighborhood...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Friday, October 17, 2014, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will present the Los Alamos business community with the 2014 Google eCity Award. He will be joined by representatives from Google, as well as members of the Los Alamos Commerce & Development Corporation, the Los Alamos Cooperative Market, the Los Alamos...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U. S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will deliver a keynote address at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) on Thursday, October 16, 2014 in Las Cruces. Senator Heinrich's speech, entitled, "A New Frontier: From the Land of Enchantment to Space," will focus on the considerable expertise...

(PHOTO: Sen. Heinrich with OptiSource staff in Albuquerque on October 10, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) toured OptiSource, a photonics manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, to discuss its latest projects and how research and development can help spur innovation and job creation.  Optisource, a local photonics...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will visit the Mountain View Market in Las Cruces at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 16, 2014, to talk about the growing income inequality in America and the importance of raising the national minimum wage to $10.10 for all workers. "Tackling income inequality will strengthen New Mexico...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center has been awarded $15,120,767 to test expansion of their telehealth infrastructure system that will provide 30 hospitals statewide with remote emergency neurological...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $363,239 in federal grant funding to provide technical assistance to the Southwest Cooperative Development Center Inc. and Capacity Builders Inc., two organizations that help socially disadvantaged agricultural producers in Mora and San Juan counties to expand their...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $450,000 for the City of Roswell to support the community’s efforts to begin nonstop air travel service from the Roswell Industrial Air Center Airport to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.  The grant, funded through the U.S. Department of...

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 declared a major disaster for the state of New Mexico for the severe storms and flooding from July 27 – August 5. The declaration means the president...

WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced $550,750 in grants to strengthen markets for New Mexico produce by providing tools and resources to help agricultural producers successfully enhance their competitiveness and expand their operations.  The funding is being awarded through the U.S. Department of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján, and Michelle Lujan Grisham welcomed an  announcement by the White House to award more than $200 million in public and private investment to create an Integrated Photonics Manufacturing Institute, led by the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that more than $2.8 million has been awarded to 13 tribal energy and mineral development projects in New Mexico. These awards to eight tribes will help them better evaluate and make use of their energy and mineral resources to benefit the tribal, state, and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has awarded $547,000 to support a Regional Innovation Cluster in Southeastern New Mexico.  The award to Emerging Technology Ventures (ETV), a New Mexico company, supports work to create an unmanned systems research...