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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and 13 Democratic senators are calling for the Department of Defense to investigate and address white supremacy and extremist ideology in the ranks of the military following the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week. Several of the...

Martin Heinrich is among 14 U.S. senators calling for an investigation into white supremacy in the military after rioters, including one waving a Confederate flag, ransacked the U.S. Capitol last week. A number of military veterans and service members took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, creating concern they were recruited by violent extremists,...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the launch of Outdoor F.U.T.U.R.E., a national outdoor equity initiative created by Black, Indigenous, and leaders of color from states and organizations across the country. The new initiative follows the lead of two groundbreaking outdoor equity programs first...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump: “Donald Trump incited a mob of insurrectionists who stormed the United States Capitol. What he did resulted in the death of five people, including a police officer. There...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Air Force’s announcement today to base the new U.S. Space Command headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama: “To rush such a large and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and 43 Senate Democrats are demanding that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the Trump administration take immediate action to fix the significant failures of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution as coronavirus cases continue to climb. In the...

WASHINGTON — Following last week’s insurrection and breach on the U.S. Capitol as members of Congress were certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, and U.S. Senators Chris Murphy...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the certification of the Electoral College results and restoring our democracy: “What happened yesterday in the United States Capitol is such an embarrassment for a country that has been looked up to around the world for over 200 years. When you look at...

More help for New Mexico's hospitals, public health systems, and struggling New Mexicans is on the way. Congress finally reached a new bipartisan agreement at the end of last year to support our health care workers and millions of families who are struggling through no fault of their own. The emergency COVID-19 relief package extended unemployment...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the violence at the U.S. Capitol today: "President Trump incited this assault on democracy and the rule of law, but he will not succeed. That is not how we do things in America. "As soon as order is restored, we are going to go back and do our jobs and...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on a video showing a park ranger tasing a Native American man in Petroglyph National Monument: "We are shocked by the video of a National Park Service ranger tasing Darrell House at Petroglyph National Monument on...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021: “This is another dangerous move by President Trump to put his...

WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) to accelerate the development of next-generation energy storage has been signed into law. The Better Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Act will support grid-scale energy storage research and development...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is cosponsoring the Economic Justice Act, a major legislative proposal that provides more than $435 billion in immediate and long-term investments in communities of color to address systemic racism and reverse decades of historic underinvestment. Through eleven key initiatives, the Economic...

WASHINGTON—Yesterday, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined the full Senate to pass government funding bills for Fiscal Year 2021. Udall and Heinrich secured critical investments for New Mexico and Indian Country in economic development, environmental...

This has been the worst year in recorded history for wildfires in the United States, and the vast majority of over 9.5 million acres burned so far has occurred in the American West. Huge sections of states were closed by fire, smoke clogged the air in cities and national forests, monuments, parks and wilderness areas were shut off to visitors....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) touted the inclusion of clean energy tax credits in the $1.4 trillion federal spending and tax extension package that is expected to be voted on soon. "I am pleased this bipartisan agreement extends and expands tax incentives for clean energy, which are proven ways to grow both the wind and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is lauding the inclusion of funding directed to improve air ventilation systems in elementary and secondary schools in the emergency COVID-19 relief package. Senator Heinrich has been championing the effort to provide funding for elementary and secondary schools to improve indoor air quality...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is leading 11 Senate Democratic colleagues in a letter to President-elect Joseph R. Biden requesting that the incoming Biden administration make a full repeal of the Trump administration’s harmful section 201 tariffs on imported solar photovoltaic cells and panels an early...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted to pass a $900 billion emergency COVID-19 relief package that will provide desperately needed assistance to New Mexico families, small businesses, hospitals, and public health systems. The COVID-19 relief package will extend unemployment benefits; deliver...