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WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the situation in Afghanistan: “The rapid collapse of the Afghan government and security forces to the Taliban has created a desperate situation in Afghanistan. I’m encouraged to see the Biden administration working swiftly to support the evacuation...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies, approved a request from the Department of Defense to reprogram $13 million in additional funding to replace an outdated testing and evaluation facility at White Sands Missile Range...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, joined U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)...

WASHINGTON – Today, Tuesday, February 22, at 12:30 p.m. MT/ 2:30 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, will participate in an open hearing to discuss the recent extensive cyberattack that breached the networks of U.S. federal agencies and private companies. The hearing will...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a new member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced today that he will serve as the chairman of the Military Construction (MILCON), Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, which oversees funding for new military construction and the U.S. Department of Veterans...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement after voting to confirm U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. The Senate confirmed Secretary Mayorkas today by a vote of 56 to 43. “In the face of domestic terror and cybersecurity threats, the ongoing emergency response to the Covid-19...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) participated in a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee to consider the nomination of Kathleen Hicks to be Deputy Secretary of Defense. VIDEO: Heinrich Questions Deputy Defense Secretary Nominee In Confirmation Hearing [HD DOWNLOAD LINK HERE] In the hearing, Senator Heinrich...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is encouraged by a U.S. Air Force Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that identifies the expansion of the Talon Military Operations Area (MOA) and the overlying Air Traffic Control Assigned Airspace as the preferred alternative to enlarge Holloman Air Force Base’s F-16 fighter...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, introduced a resolution expressing the Sense of the Senate on the imminent and pervasive threat of domestic terrorism, violent white supremacists, neo-Nazis, anti-government militias, and dangerous, fringe conspiracy theories to...

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 the Biden administration conduct a comprehensive review of the Air Force’s decision in the final days of the Trump administration to host the U.S. Space Command...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement after voting to confirm President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense nominee, retired U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin: “I am acutely aware of the degree to which the previous administration undermined...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Sen. Martin Heinrich was upset after seeing images of the National Guard in a parking garage. "It immediately rubbed me the wrong way and I started reaching out to my colleagues to see what they knew," Heinrich said. The senator from New Mexico said he offered his office space to members of the National Guard. "At the end of the...

Congress voted again to impeach President Trump, and law enforcement is preparing for potential violence at state capitals around the U.S. as we count down to Inauguration Day on Wednesday, Jan. 20. Martin Heinrich is now the senior senator for New Mexico, and he was one of the first lawmakers to see the mob make their way to the Capitol steps....

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) participated in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to consider the nomination of retired U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin to be Secretary of Defense. In the hearing, Senator Heinrich, who has served as Ranking Member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee and is the co-founder of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned Avril Haines during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmation hearing on her nomination to be the Director of National Intelligence. He asked what role Haines thought the intelligence community should play in addressing violent threats originating from white...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and 13 Democratic senators are calling for the Department of Defense to investigate and address white supremacy and extremist ideology in the ranks of the military following the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week. Several of the...

Martin Heinrich is among 14 U.S. senators calling for an investigation into white supremacy in the military after rioters, including one waving a Confederate flag, ransacked the U.S. Capitol last week. A number of military veterans and service members took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, creating concern they were recruited by violent extremists,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Air Force’s announcement today to base the new U.S. Space Command headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama: “To rush such a large and...

WASHINGTON — Following last week’s insurrection and breach on the U.S. Capitol as members of Congress were certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, and U.S. Senators Chris Murphy...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021: “This is another dangerous move by President Trump to put his...