press releases

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement on the ceasefire and hostage deal reached between Israel and Hamas: "I applaud President Biden and his administration’s extensive diplomatic efforts for securing a ceasefire deal to finally put an end to this brutal war, reunite families with their loved ones taken...

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, published an op-ed in The Hill on the importance of protecting America's public lands. Full text of the op-ed can be found below or read online, here. Our public lands are not for sale By U.S. Senator Martin...

VIDEO: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member Martin Heinrich questions Secretary of Energy Nominee Chris Wright during confirmation hearing, January 15, 2025. WASHINGTON — During Chris Wright’s confirmation hearing for U.S. Secretary of Energy, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) announced $120 million for Fiscal Year 2025 for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project using funding from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s...

EXPLORE Act includes Heinrich’s bills to improve the permitting process for outfitters and to provide all American fourth graders and their families free national park access WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced today that two of his bipartisan bills — the...

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.) welcomed $231 million in federal funding for Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) and Village of Questa, N.M. Green Hydrogen Project from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Empowering Rural America (New...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and 40 of his colleagues as a cosponsor of the District of Columbia statehood bill for the 119th Congress in the Senate, following Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-D.C.) introduction of the bill in the U.S. House of Representatives....

24 hours before the hearing is scheduled to take place, the Committee has yet to receive critical information on Wright required by law and by Committee rules, including a completed financial disclosure form and completion of an FBI background check WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy...

Washington, D.C. – 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.) welcomed $172,299,188 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to support a series of infrastructure projects to enhance...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, along with all eight Democrats on the Committee and one Independent, penned a letter to Chairman Mike Lee (R-U.T.) requesting he postpone the Committee’s hearing on the nomination of Governor Doug Burgum to be the Secretary of...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on his meetings this week with Governor Doug Burgum and Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for U.S. Secretary of Interior and U.S. Secretary of Energy: “This week, I had...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) called on U.S.  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to protect the Caja del Rio. “We write to urge you to protect the Caja del Rio plateau...

Chairman Lee once again issues hearing notice without having received information from nominees required by law and by Committee rules, including a completed financial disclosure form and completion of an FBI background check WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) reintroduced the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act, legislation that would end the antiquated practice of changing clocks twice a year. "More time for sunshine. Less time changing your clocks. The bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act is a no-brainer. Let’s get it passed this Congress,” said...

WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, announced a $6.95 million investment from the Infrastructure Law he passed for two projects aimed at reducing the risk of severe wildfires by enhancing forest and watershed health, and supporting agricultural production...

Hearing notice issued last night by Chairman Lee fails to include minority consent, a breach of decades-long Senate protocol and precedent Committee has yet to receive essential information from nominees, including a completed financial disclosure form and completion of an FBI background check, to fulfill Senate’s advice and consent constitutional...

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.) welcomed $137,178,000 in federal funding to support disaster recovery needs associated with the destructive floods in Roswell and Chaves County as well as the...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement to recognize the fourth anniversary of the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021: “Four years ago today, our democracy was pushed to the brink by rioters who violently forced their way into the U.S. Capitol to try and stop the certification of a...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) was sworn in for his third term as a U.S. Senator representing New Mexico. “I am honored to have been elected by New Mexicans to serve a third term in the United States Senate,” said Heinrich. “In this new Congress, I look forward to continuing to deliver for the people and places of New...

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.) welcomed $6,372,354 from the Infrastructure Law — legislation passed by Democrats in the N.M. Congressional Delegation — for the Pueblo of Santa Ana to design wildlife corridors complete with wildlife exclusion...