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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) presided as Ranking Member of a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities hearing on the importance of technology transfer and ways to move technologies and systems more rapidly into the hands of operational forces. VIDEO: Heinrich Holds Senate Armed...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are asking for the fifth time that CIA Director Mike Pompeo declassify information related to the background of CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, whom the president has indicated he will nominate as director of the...

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about whether President Donald Trump will try to fire special counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the two men who wield the most power in the Russia investigation. A series of scandals, with the FBI raiding the office of Trump’s personal...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -  On Tuesday, April 17, the Office of U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will host a Service Academy Information Night in Las Cruces at the Mayfield High School Library. Senator Heinrich's staff will be on hand to answer questions and give prospective applicants and their families the opportunity to speak with...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  Today, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities held a hearing, "United States Special Operations Command's Efforts to Transform the Force for Future Security Challenges." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) as prepared for delivery. Let me begin...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on the chemical attack in Syria: "When any country chooses to ignore the international norms against the use of chemical weapons, they have made a deeply immoral decision with worldwide implications...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. military recently tested a new, high-powered microwave weapon built by Raytheon in New Mexico to down swarms of incoming drones and missiles. Raytheon successfully demonstrated the system in December during an Army exercise at Fort Sill, Ok., where the ground-based weapon shot down 33 unmanned aerial vehicles with...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For years, World War II Navajo Code Talker Adolph Nagurski didn’t talk much about his war experiences. In fact, his son, Benjamin Nagurski, said, “I didn’t know my dad had been in the Marines until maybe the 1970s, when it was finally revealed there were such things as Code Talkers.” For the past...

WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined the full Senate in voting 65-32 for an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government. The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the bill, and the president signed...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing to review the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) atomic energy defense programs for Fiscal Year 2019, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) secured a commitment from Energy Secretary Rick Perry to support maintaining Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) role as the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined James Lankford (R-Okla.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in introducing a revised Secure Elections Act, a bill to strengthen election cybersecurity in America. The Senators originally...

PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) delivers the keynote address at the Directed Energy Summit, March 21, 2018  WASHINGTON, D.C. -  Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and founder of the first ever Congressional Directed Energy Caucus, delivered a keynote address at...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and Mayor Tim Keller will host a Public Safety and Consumer Protection Fair on Tuesday, April 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center in Albuquerque, N.M. This event is part of their ongoing efforts to promote public safety and consumer protection in New Mexico. Over a dozen...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence open hearing on the threats to election infrastructure and improving election security. VIDEO: Heinrich Questions...

Today’s (March 21, 2018) KSFR Wake-Up Call: Two reports emanating from Washington: Senator Martin Heinrich is pushing for answers into the question of Russian cyber-interference in US elections….while Heinrich’s New Mexico colleague Tom Udall is hopeful that Congress adopts common sense steps to reduce gun violence while still...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, March 21, at approximately 1:15 p.m. ET/11:15 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and founder of the first ever Congressional Directed Energy Caucus, will deliver a keynote address at the 2018 Directed Energy Summit in Washington, D.C. Senator Heinrich has...

Leaders of both parties on Tuesday made a high-profile push to keep hackers and online trolls from skewing American democracy, offering the first major set of bipartisan suggestions to bolster the digital defenses protecting the country’s electoral systems. The recommendations — the first release from the Senate Intelligence...

Senate Intelligence Committee members said Tuesday that the federal government and states should take immediate steps to update antiquated voting machines; improve information-sharing and cybersecurity measures surrounding threats to systems; and make it clear that the United States will respond to attacks on election infrastructure as hostile acts...

A small city in the mountains of landlocked New Mexico could become the namesake of the next U.S. attack submarine. All five members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation this week asked Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer to name the next Virginia class fast-attack submarine “USS Los Alamos” in recognition of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the United States Strategic Command’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned General John Hyten on meeting the nation’s nuclear program needs and the importance of a resilient and responsive space architecture. VIDEO: Heinrich...