press releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham are working to ensure that federal workers in New Mexico are not financially hurt in the long-term by the federal government shutdown. New Mexico is home to roughly 27,000 federal workers, and Sandia National Laboratories...

Thank you, Mr. President for the opportunity to address this chamber today. Mr. President, I am a strong believer that innovation is what America does best.  That boundless wonder and curiosity can lead to revolutionary discoveries. That diligence and optimism can break down barriers. Mr. President I’m a believer that technology, and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced today that the necessary Senate and House committees have approved a reprogramming request for an additional $19 million needed to assist in maintaining the ongoing cleanup and environmental management efforts at Los Alamos...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced today that the Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House have responded to their calls for critical funding needed to maintain ongoing environmental management efforts at Los Alamos National Laboratory...

CARLSBAD, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will tour the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center (CEMRC), a division of the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University, on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. CEMRC Director Russell Hardy and scientific group leaders will give Sen. Heinrich an overview of the radiochemistry...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) today led a bipartisan group of senators in renewing their efforts to expand restitution for Americans sickened from working in uranium mines or living downwind of atomic weapons tests. April 19, 2013 is the 24th anniversary of the introduction of the original Radiation Exposure Compensation Act...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Members of the NM Congressional Delegation, Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich, Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham, are asking President Obama to nominate a candidate to lead the Nuclear National Security Administration (NNSA) who will work with Congress to reform the agency and maintain the highest scientific and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall sent a letter to President Obama today requesting that the administration include federal funding in the Department of Energy’s Defense Environmental Cleanup 2014 budget for at least $255 million for cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory and $222 million to operate and...