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WASHINGTON (June 27, 2022) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) announced today that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) in New Mexico are no longer in jeopardy of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.), along with U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Sherrod Brown...

ALBUQUERQUE – On Monday, June 27, 2022, at 3:10 p.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich will join U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center for a media availability to discuss their efforts to strengthen care and support for New Mexico veterans. Senator Heinrich, the Chair...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 28, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough will visit VA facilities in New Mexico, talk with employees and veterans and discuss the care and benefits being provided to New Mexico veterans. Senator Heinrich and Secretary McDonough...

WASHINGTON – Today, Monday, June 27, at 10:15 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be in Albuquerque highlighting his legislation to authorize investments in early childhood education and child care with parents, teachers, and community members. Due to weather this event will now take place at Olé New...

ALBUQUERQUE — On Wednesday, September 7 at 4:00 p.m. MT, representatives from the offices of U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (N.M.) will host a Veterans' Resource Fair at the Edgewood Administrative Offices to assist local veterans with access to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees funding for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), participated in a bipartisan press conference following the Senate passage of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive...

WASHINGTON – Today, Thursday, June 16, at 10 a.m. MT/ 12 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees funding for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will participate in a bipartisan press conference following the Senate vote on the Sergeant First Class Heath...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, June 7, at 7 a.m. MT/ 9 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees funding for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will participate in a bipartisan press conference to call for the immediate Senate passage of the Sergeant First Class Heath...

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) introduced the Elimination of the VA Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission Act which would eliminate the commission that is tasked with finding facilities that should be consolidated or...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, issued the following statement on a bipartisan agreement on comprehensive legislation to deliver all generations of toxic-exposed veterans their earned health care and benefits...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees funding for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), emphasized the importance of VA Secretary Denis McDonough providing reassessed data that will drive proposed changes to the delivery of VA health care services. In March, Senator...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies opened a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget and Fiscal Year 2024 Advance Appropriations Requests for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). VIDEO: Chair Heinrich...

WASHINGTON – Today, Wednesday, May 4, at 3:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will Chair a hearing of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies to review the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget and Fiscal Year 2024 Advance Appropriations Requests for the...

LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with Las Vegas-area veterans to hear how recommendations that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provided for the Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission, could impact the delivery of health care services at the community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) in Las...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are requesting that U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough visit New Mexico to see firsthand just how integral community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC) are to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined a group of twelve bipartisan senators calling on President Joe Biden to consult with Congress and local stakeholders on a state-by-state basis about the potential impacts the Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission recommendations would have,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are objecting to recommendations that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provided for the Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission, which could impact the delivery of health care services at the community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs) in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, released the following statement after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released its recommendations for the Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Military Construction (MILCON), Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, secured provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act that would provide essential resources to help New Mexico veterans get the health care, employment, and housing...