press releases

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, welcomed $4 million in funding for New Mexico through the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) aimed at reducing the risk of severe wildfires, supporting local economies, creating jobs and enhancing forest and...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 19, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will engage in on-the-ground discussions in Albuquerque and Las Vegas to advance priorities for New Mexicans. At 11 a.m. MT, Senator Heinrich will attend the open house for the New Mexico Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)...

ALBUQERUQUE, N.M. – On Saturday, April 16, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with the Southwest Are Type 1 Incident Management Team 2 for a fire briefing and tour of key impacts areas of the McBride and Nogal Fires.  Senator Heinrich also met with Lincoln County and Village of Ruidoso Emergency Managers to discuss recovery...

New Mexico’s U.S. senators are holding discussions with veterans this week on a recent recommendation to shut down smaller Department of Veterans Affairs’ health clinics in four New Mexico towns. Sen. Martin Heinrich, an Albuquerque Democrat, will be at the VFW San Juan Argonne Post 1547 in Las Vegas, N.M., Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.,...

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.) are requesting that U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough visit New Mexico to see firsthand just how integral community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) are to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is leading a group of 20 lawmakers who are calling on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to accurately assess the cost of reliance on fossil fuels, which impacts national security and the climate crisis, as the agency prepares to update its vehicle fleet. The request comes in response to a...

A bill aimed at supporting some of the America’s most imperiled plant and animal species passed a Senate committee last week after it was introduced by New Mexico U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM). The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act was also sponsored by U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and was passed April 7 by the U.S. Senate Committee on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined a group of twelve bipartisan senators calling on President Joe Biden to consult with Congress and local stakeholders on a state-by-state basis about the potential impacts the Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission recommendations would have,...

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...