press releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after being selected to serve on a conference committee of Senate and House members to finalize legislation boosting America’s economic competitiveness and address supply chain issues:  "We are in a global race that America needs to win. This bill can...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) are one step closer to getting the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act across the finish line. Today, the landmark conservation legislation was voted out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) with bipartisan support. The...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after voting to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court: “It is an honor to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as the next Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. “Judge Jackson received...

The federal Recovering America’s Wildlife Act cleared the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on a 15-5 vote Thursday, advancing what proponents call the “most significant wildlife conservation bill in half a century.” This bill, which is sponsored by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, and Roy...

WASHINGTON - Tomorrow, Thursday, April 7, at 2:15 p.m. ET/ 12:15 p.m. MT, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) will hold a conference call with reporters on the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act following the business meeting before the U.S. Senate Committee on...

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) announced $73,508,702 in investments from the Infrastructure Law to enable transit agencies to modernize and expand services for New Mexicans in communities large...

New Mexico is in the running to be the home of two parts of the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Training Readiness Command Headquarters, or STARCOM. The U.S. Air Force this week announced that Kirtland Air Force Base is a finalist to be the home of two of five space deltas – which are essentially a specific mission or area of focus –...

Homes throughout New Mexico could become more energy efficient during extreme weather events as the state will receive up to $22 million in federal grant dollars to do so via the infrastructure bill recently signed into law by President Joe Biden. The bill earmarked the federal dollars for New Mexico through the U.S. Department of Energy’s...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are welcoming an announcement from the U.S. Air Force that Kirtland Air Force Base (AFB) has been selected as a candidate location for two components of U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are calling on New Mexicans to submit their interest in requesting Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) federal funds for local projects. The FY23 appropriations process includes opportunities to fund local projects...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, April 7, at 10 a.m. ET/ 8 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s (D-N.M.) Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) will be considered during a business meeting before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). The legislation received a legislative EPW...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – At 7 p.m. MT on Wednesday, April 27, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández, Melanie Stansbury, and Yvette Herrell will bring together representatives from U.S. Military Service Academies for a virtual Q&A session. The conversation is an...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are welcoming $800,000 in American Rescue Plan grant funding to support training and development of Tribal entrepreneurs at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Rainforest Innovations. “UNM Rainforest...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Bob Casey (D-Penn.) introduced the First Three Act to spark critical innovation and investments in domestic industrial decarbonization technologies, ensuring the U.S. is on the path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while boosting the global competitiveness of American...

WASHINGTON – The Co-Chairs of the Electrification Caucus U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and U.S. Representatives Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) released the following statement in response to President Biden’s latest proposals to address the energy price hikes brought on by Vladimir...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the Biden Administration reinstating an asylum processing system at U.S. borders. The order from the Centers for Disease Control...

WASHINGTON - 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.) announced the first installment of funding, $160 million, from the Infrastructure Law to support the completion of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System pipeline in eastern New Mexico. The...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) secured $2,000,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending for the Street Food Institute’s Barelas Central Kitchen project in the recent Omnibus Appropriations Agreement for Fiscal Year 2022. This investment will support the creation of a 10,000...

WASHINTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representatives Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) introduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tribal Public Health Security and Preparedness Act, legislation that would ensure Tribal nations have equal access to funding...

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) cosponsored the Support Kids Not Red Tape Act with Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and a bipartisan group of their colleagues. The bill extends U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) school meal flexibilities from...