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FARMINGTON — The federal government is paying nearly all the costs to rebuild crumbling taxiways at the Four Corners Regional Airport. New Mexico's U.S. senators, Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, announced on Tuesday that the Federal Aviation Administration is awarding the city a little more than $200,000 to design plans to fix taxiways G, E...

Senate Democrats have introduced legislation that aims to increase access to affordable post-secondary education for low- to moderate-income students through Pell Grants. The Middle Class Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically, or CHANCE Act, Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) unveiled...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii)introduced S.1998, the Middle Class Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically (CHANCE) Act, a bill to increase access to affordable post-secondary education for low- to moderate-income students. The bill would...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced more than $3.3 million in grants to support runway expansion, rehabilitation and other improvements at nine airports across New Mexico. Clovis, Grants, Alamogordo, Colfax County, Lea County, Questa, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Farmington and...

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the State of New Mexico will receive $500,138 through the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to support outdoor recreation and conservation projects throughout the state. LWCF funds are a highly effective tool for creating and protecting urban and rural...

LAS CRUCES >> U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, visited Las Cruces on Monday, promoting a new proposal he says will help counter child and family poverty in New Mexico. Heinrich said he was gathering feedback for what will become a federal bill called the Two Generation Economic Empowerment Act. The goal, he said, is to streamline federal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the state of New Mexico, along with Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna and Otero counties, will receive more than $10 million combined for border security and emergency preparedness. The funding comes from various U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

SANTA FE, N.M. - On Wednesday, August 12, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and the City of Santa Fe will host the 2015 Santa Fe Energy Summit at the Santa Fe Community College (SFCC). The event will bring together experts, business and tribal leaders, public officials, and decision makers to advance the clean energy economy in northern New...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel to Las Cruces on Monday, August 10, to discuss Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education and health care technology initiatives at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and tour the campus' NASA Aerospace Education Lab. Senator Heinrich will also host an outreach...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will bring together families, local service providers, and administrators from across New Mexico for outreach sessions to discuss a two-generation approach to creating economic opportunities and addressing the needs of both vulnerable children and their parents. In Las Cruces, Albuquerque,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced a bill today to reauthorize and fund the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program for six years, permanently reauthorize and fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), and permanently fund the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, secured key provisions for New Mexico in the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015, a bipartisan energy package that cleared the committee by a vote of 18-4. Senator Heinrich successfully included in the package a bill he...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, during a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources markup hearing, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) advocated for legislation to promote renewable energy development on public lands, community solar, and reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The hearing was held to consider...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, applauded the inclusion of permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) in the bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015. Authorization for LWCF, which was established in 1965, is set to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement today after the 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book, released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ranked New Mexico as 49th in the nation for child well-being. The report ranked all 50 states on 16 indicators that fall into the categories of economic well-being,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted to pass S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and overhaul the country's current K-12 education law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The bill passed the senate by a vote of 81 to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced today that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an agency under the U.S. Department of Transportation, has awarded more than $6.1 million for rehabilitation and development projects for airports across New Mexico. These grants will be used for the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, joined U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) to introduce S.1755, a bill to extend the Residential Energy Efficient Property Tax Credit (25D) by five years. The legislation would extend a successful tax credit...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) welcomed U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) announcement today to enter into a public-private partnership with Dell, Inc. to fund additional hours of operation for southbound commercial traffic at the Santa Teresa Port of Entry (POE). After Senator Heinrich's office made Dell, Inc....

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday that it would expand hours of operation for south-bound commercial traffic at the Santa Teresa Port of Entry as part of a public-private partnership with Dell Computers. Dell will be funding four additional hours for southbound commercial traffic Monday through Friday for one year, according to a...