press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded $1,000,300 to Navajo Technical University (NTU) in Crownpoint, New Mexico to build a Metrology...

The University of New Mexico has been awarded $20 million from the National Science Foundation to build a research and education program to help develop a more modern electric grid. The project aims to connect scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories with students and researchers from New Mexico's higher...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement marking Labor Day: "I'm proud that my father was a lineman and a member of the local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union.  Union wages paid for my college tuition and made my family solidly middle class.    "In...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, introduced the Measuring Real Income Growth Act of 2018, which would require the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to report how economic growth is distributed across the income spectrum.  This data would help...

WASHINGTON – In an effort to shield New Mexico’s 12,000 active-duty military members and their families from abusive financial practices, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined every Democratic member of the U.S. Senate in urging the Trump Administration not to abandon its...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced provisions he secured in the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that support New Mexico's men and women in uniform, military installations, national laboratories, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded a grant of $1.3 million to the Village of Los Lunas. The EDA funding will support water infrastructure improvements at the Central New Mexico Rail Park in Los Lunas and serve as...

SANTA FE – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from five states, including New Mexico Democrats Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, is urging Amtrak to keep train passenger service over all of the route of the Southwest Chief, which runs daily between Chicago and Los Angeles. New Mexico’s delegation also joined senators from Kansas and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led a bipartisan group of Senators from states spanning the country in urging Amtrak to uphold its side of a longstanding public-private partnership to continue operating the Southwest Chief passenger train and long-distance passenger service, particularly through rural...

PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hosts the National Tribal Telecommunications Association, July 23, 2018 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hosted the National Tribal Telecommunications Association (NTTA) in his Washington, D.C. office. The NTTA is in Washington this week to work on telecommunications issues...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced more than $23 million in grants to support air transportation infrastructure at 26 airports across New Mexico. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration awarded the Air Improvement Program grants...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Steve Pearce and Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday urged the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to reverse tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Canadian newsprint, which threaten local newspapers across New Mexico. In a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Steve Pearce and Michelle Lujan Grisham urged the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to reverse the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Canadian newsprint,...

The primary elevators at Carlsbad Caverns National Park went back into service last week after a three-year modernization project following a breakdown in 2015. Next, the park planned to rebuild the small secondary, or backup, elevators which were used during the shutdown of the primary system. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) questioned...

I’m standing in the heart of White Sands National Monument, in southern New Mexico, the largest gypsum dune field in the world. A sea of sand stretches as far as the eye can see—white waves and crests and curls, all uniformly rippled on the surface. The place is so vast that it’s visible from space. If new...

Some of the country’s most sensitive nuclear security functions are performed in outdated, run-down buildings on Kirtland Air Force Base. It’s a problem New Mexico’s elected officials and federal government administrators say they are now addressing with a massive new facility. The National Nuclear Security Administration on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in the Senate to pass the 2018 Farm Bill – major legislation that supports New Mexico farmers and ranchers, and helps every county in the state by protecting the farm and social safety net, while making strategic...

Recently, the Joint Economic Committee Democrats released a report that evaluated that state of the economy in rural communities, and proposed policies that could help them. Donna Resendez examines this report, with the help of a JEC press conference featuring Senator Martin Heinrich. There are 46 million rural residents in the United States, which...

Eddy County led the state in fiscal year 2018 Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding. According to a news release from U.S. Sen. Tom Udall's Office, Eddy County received $3.598 million. Following closely in fundinger were Otero County, which  received $3.597 and Rio Arriba County which received $3.23 million. Eddy County was awarded...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On Monday, July 2 at 9:30 a.m., U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will participate in the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Albuquerque Complex Project in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The project will provide a modern, safe, and secure...