press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Susan Collins (R-Maine), all members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to introduce The Securing Energy Infrastructure Act of 2016, a bill to protect critical U.S. energy infrastructure from potentially catastrophic...

In a phone interview with the Los Alamos Monitor Tuesday, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) discussed some recent successes in the Senate that could have both direct and indirect benefits for Los Alamos. The fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has several gains for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), including an increase in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), both members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, have introduced a resolution to celebrate that the U.S. has reached one million solar installations across the country. The solar energy industry supports bringing clean solar technology into...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined the Senate in a 90-8 vote to pass the fiscal year 2017 funding bill for Los Alamos and Sandia national labs, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and several New Mexico water projects. The Energy and Water Appropriations Act is critical for New Mexico and supports...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that the University of New Mexico (UNM) will receive $884,573 from the National Science Foundation to collaborate with Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) to develop a certificate program in green construction technologies. The program will prepare...

SANTA FE, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to Los Alamos on Thursday, May 5, to highlight technology transfer between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and private industry, and also meet with LANL's historian. On Thursday morning, Senator Heinrich will tour the start-up tech company Descartes Labs. The company uses...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, voted for the Energy Policy Modernization Act, a bipartisan energy package that cleared the Senate today by a vote of 85 to 12. Senator Heinrich worked to secure key provisions in the bill to boost New Mexico's energy...

In the past 55 years, the U.S. has spent more than $6 billion researching how to apply “focused energy technologies” — which include lasers, microwaves and electromagnetic radiation — for use in military weapons, an enterprise that has been growing in New Mexico. Last month, programs to develop directed-energy weapons at...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee, have introduced the Directed Energy Weapon Systems Acquisition Act of 2016, a bill to accelerate the development and transition of directed energy technology capabilities for our nation's military. The bill...

ROSWELL, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to Quay, Curry, and Roosevelt counties on Thursday, March 24, and Friday March 25, to host discussions with students about college affordability and job training opportunities at three Hispanic-Serving Institutions in eastern New Mexico: Mesalands Community College, Clovis Community...

(PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich speaks at the Raytheon Ktech facility in Albuquerque, March 23, 2016) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced a $10 million investment in directed energy development in New Mexico.  A $4.8 million award from the U.S Air...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, issued the following statement in support of adding the site of the Gold King Mine spill that polluted the Four Corners region last summer to the Superfund National Priorities List. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper formally...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will participate in three key committee hearings to advocate for New Mexico priorities. On Wednesday, March 2, Senator Heinrich will participate in a Joint Economic Committee hearing to discuss strengthening New Mexico's middle class and leveling the playing field for hard-working...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces hearing, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) highlighted the success of a recent small business information meeting he hosted in Albuquerque that brought together small business owners and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Supply Chain Management...

In the wake of companies like Google, Sprint, and Caterpillar announcing layoffs in recent months, one would think it would be welcome news to learn of a company eager to invest $1.6 billion in New Mexico’s economy, create tens of thousands of private sector jobs, modernize our electric grid and allow us to export clean energy to hungry...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) authority to set rates for an energy-saving practice known as “demand response” when used in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham welcomed the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) draft rules for curbing natural gas waste. New Mexico is the nation's leading producer of oil from onshore federal land, and second for natural gas...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement tonight after President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Senator Heinrich's special guest this evening was Carielle Bahe, a junior at the University of New Mexico studying Secondary Education who grew up in...

The Ohkay Owingeh became the 23rd tribe to move further towards tribal self-governance as acting Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Lawrence S. Roberts announced it has the sovereign authority to lease tribal lands. The federally recognized tribe in north-central New Mexico is the latest to be granted this authority consistent with...

The U.S. Congress voted on Friday to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil in an energy policy shift sought by Republicans as part of a bipartisan deal that also provided unprecedented tax incentives for wind and solar power. The Senate, on a 65-33 vote, approved lifting the ban and providing five-year extensions of tax breaks to...