press releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement welcoming the U.S. Department of Treasury’s guidance for implementing the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit in the Inflation Reduction Act. “Hydrogen is a climate solution only when it...

WASHINGTON –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.) wrote to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) requesting an extension for the comment period for the agency’s draft Environmental Assessment of the Los Alamos National...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, along with U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to President Biden on the economic deterioration in the West Bank and the troubling rise in violent acts perpetrated by...

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging the agency to adopt measures to protect children and endangered species from rodenticide...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, joined U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and 38 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution in support of equitable,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced his nominees to the United States Service Academies. A nomination is required to attend the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; the U.S. Coast Guard Academy does not require a nomination.    Being...

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, during a markup in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s (D-N.M.) Pecos Watershed Protection Act and Continental Divide Trail Completion Act passed out of committee with bipartisan support. The legislation now must be considered by the full Senate.    VIDEO: Heinrich Legislation to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and U.S. Representatives Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) and Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) are introducing new, bipartisan, and bicameral legislation called the Building Native Habitats at Federal Facilities Act. The bill will protect pollinators, conserve water, and reduce pesticide usage...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24). The legislation includes major wins that Heinrich secured, including investments in New Mexico’s service members, military installations, national labs, and job-creating initiatives...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, introduced the Southwest Border Regional Commission Reauthorization Act, legislation to reauthorize and fully fund the Southwest Border Regional Commission (SBRC). The SBRC is one of eight authorized federal regional commissions and authorities,...

LAS CRUCES – On Monday, December 18, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will host a roundtable conversation with Doña Ana County Sheriff Kim Stewart and community members to discuss his newly introduced gun legislation, the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE) Act. Additionally, Heinrich will tour New Mexico’s first...

VIDEO | BILL TEXT    WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich’s (D-N.M.) Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act is gaining momentum after it was considered during a hearing in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today.       The Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act would modernize the nation’s severely antiquated Mining Law of 1872, addressing...

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, December 12, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) announced a $480,000 investment for the Mescalero Apache Tribe from the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) new Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program to improve wildlife crossings along US-70.   “I am so...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) provided video remarks to the attendees of Complete College America’s Annual Convening in Las Vegas, Nevada. VIDEO: Heinrich Highlights Postsecondary Student Success Grants at Complete College America Convening, December 10, 2023.    During his remarks, Heinrich highlighted his work on the Senate...

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 welcoming $59.8 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for a U.S. 64 corridor improvement and repair project running through Shiprock, N.M. The funding is made possible by the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) reintroduced the Pathways to Health Careers Act, legislation that reauthorizes and modernizes the Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG) program to help address health care shortages in New Mexico and across the country and create pathways to high quality, in-demand...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined Chris Jansing on MSNBC Wednesday to discuss his GOSAFE Act, legislation to protect communities from gun violence, while safeguarding Americans’ constitutional right to own a firearm for legitimate self-defense, hunting, and sporting purposes.     VIDEO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) as well as Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Dick Durbin, (D-Ill.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mazie Hirono...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led a delegation of Western senators, including U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), in calling on U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to develop a robust and comprehensive funding plan to support drought mitigation and climate...

WASHINGTON – In an op-ed published by Newsweek, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) highlights his newly introduced GOSAFE Act, legislation to protect communities from gun violence, while safeguarding Americans’ constitutional right to own a firearm for legitimate self-defense, hunting, and sporting purposes.       Newsweek: A New, Pragmatic...