press releases

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Senator Martin Heinrich is backing the federal mandate requiring the vaccine for health care workers with Veterans Affairs. The United States Department of Veteran Affairs announced the requirement Monday, as the delta variant spreads and parts of the country see a surge in cases. Sen. Heinrich says he supports...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, issued the following statement supporting U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough's announcement that he will require that all frontline...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 27, at 10 a.m. ET/ 8 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)will participate in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources full committee hearing to examine the President’s budget request for the U.S. Department of the Interior for Fiscal Year 2022. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will provide...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - In an ongoing effort to provide top-notch constituent service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich's (D-N.M.) staff will hold in-person Mobile Office Hours in Truth or Consequences and Hatch, New Mexico, on Thursday, July 29, and Alamogordo, New Mexico, on Friday, July 30. Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions...

WASHINGTON — The Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Project will be fully funded if an infrastructure bill is passed through Congress, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., announced last week. In a phone message to Gayla Brumfield, former mayor of Clovis who has been active in eastern New Mexico water supply issues, Heinrich said a provision in the...

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.) and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) joined a group of over 80 Senate and House Democrats in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, calling...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, joined several of his colleagues in introducing bipartisan legislation requiring federal agencies, government contractors, and critical infrastructure owners and operators to report cyber intrusions within 24 hours of their...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are welcoming an announcement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that a total of $150,000 in grant funding will head to three New Mexico airports in Artesia, Farmington, and Moriarty. The funds are made available through the American Rescue Plan...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) reintroduced the Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act, a bipartisan bill to create a single database for lands owned by the federal government. “The way that public lands, buildings, and other assets are currently catalogued by federal agencies is a...

The curtains will rise at UNM Popejoy Hall once again. The venue announced on July 21 that it was awarded nearly $3.4 million from the Small Business Administration's Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. “This grant will ensure the safe reopening of Popejoy Hall. We are forever grateful to our extraordinary donors who also stepped up to support...

New Mexico Democrat U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich sought to strengthen federal actions to protect endangered species in a bill introduced alongside a Republican from Missouri. On Wednesday, Heinrich and U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), aiming to invest federal funds in wildlife conservation...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) welcomed the U.S. Department of Education’s approval of New Mexico’s American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) plan. New Mexico’s plan details how the state is using and plans to use ARP ESSER funds to...

"Westerners know that the only way to solve natural resources challenges is to work with people from all walks of life and with diverse perspectives. Stone-Manning has worked with ranchers and conservation advocates, hunters and mountain bikers, and unions and Tribal leaders, making her well-suited to lead the BLM. She has earned broad support, and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, helped secure a provision in the bipartisan infrastructure package that authorizes $5,000,000,000 for Fiscal Years 2022-2026 for western water programs, including fully funding the federal share of the Eastern New Mexico Rural...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are welcoming investments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (UDSA) to rural drinking water and wastewater infrastructure for Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, and the City of Belen.  USDA is financing the projects through...

Calling it the single biggest investment into wildlife and habitat restoration in more than half a century, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., announced this week the Senate introduction of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, which if enacted would funnel more than $1 billion to conservation efforts each year. Heinrich, along with Sen. Roy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) of 2021 to invest in proactive, on-the-ground conservation work led by states, territories, and Tribal nations to support the long-term health of fish and wildlife habitat all across...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) traveled to the Sabinoso Wilderness to join U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as she accepted the largest wilderness land donation in U.S. history that will unlock greater access and nearly double the size of the wilderness area. The land donation from the Trust for...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) introduced a bill to dramatically expand Tribal access to clean water by investing in water infrastructure.  This bill would increase funding through Indian Health Service, Bureau of Reclamation, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) introduced a bill to dramatically expand Tribal access to clean water by investing in water infrastructure.  This bill would increase funding through Indian Health Service, Bureau of Reclamation, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental...