press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, introduced bipartisan legislation to protect American election systems from foreign interference. The Securing America's Voting Equipment (SAVE) Act would help safeguard voting systems,...

Amid its clear penchant for ignoring the facts and scientific analysis to promote a political agenda, the Trump administration’s decision to force American consumers to bail out uncompetitive coal-fired and nuclear power plants should come as no surprise. However, the destabilizing consequences and fact-free nature of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced bipartisan legislation they are cosponsoring that reforms a sweeping, secretive government spying program to protect the constitutional rights of Americans, while giving intelligence agencies authority to target foreign terrorists, criminals, and other...

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Congressman Ben Ray Luján announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded funds, totaling $2.58 million, to help the City of Raton in northern New Mexico upgrade its Water Treatment Plant. “The Raton Water Treatment Plant has served the City of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, October 3, at 9:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, will testify before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to oppose raising tariffs on imported solar panels and modules.  In August, Senators Heinrich...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced the bipartisan Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2017, co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Angus King (I-Maine),...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), members of the Senate Energy Committee, introduced a job-creating measure that will help strengthen our country’s energy infrastructure.                                ...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce and Ben Ray Luján announced federal funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce for economic development projects at the Village of Questa and New Mexico State University.  The...

As senators who proudly represent the world-class scientists at New Mexico’s national laboratories, research universities, military installations and high-tech businesses, we call on policymakers to use science as a guiding light. Our capacity to seize opportunities and face the many challenges ahead rests heavily on our ability to make...

Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, and U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich encouraged Boeing to conduct the Phantom Express development contract at Spaceport America (SPA) with support of White Sands Missile Range (WSMR). “New Mexico offers a number...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and U.S. Representatives John Sarbanes (D-Md.) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) led a coalition of Democratic House and Senate members in sending a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) urging the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) introduced legislation to authorize an Energy Technology Maturation Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to facilitate successful commercialization of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 1 p.m. MT/ 3 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, will introduce bipartisan legislation in a Subcommittee on Energy hearing to authorize an Energy Technology Maturation Program at the U.S....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will participate in the grand opening of the University of New Mexico Lobo Rainforest Building, the first building of the Innovate ABQ site. Innovate ABQ is a collaborative initiative that brings together the research powers of the University of New Mexico and New Mexico's government,...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., visited the Girl Scouts of New Mexico to participate in a robotics project with scouts and to talk about the importance of girls in STEM. Last month, the Girl Scouts of the USA announced the introduction of 23 new merit badges for the outdoors and STEM, which stands for...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On Wednesday, August 23, 2017, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be in Albuquerque to announce major developments in support of New Mexico’s contribution to national defense and to highlight opportunities to strengthen the pipeline for jobs in science and technology.  Wednesday morning at...

A bipartisan group of senators is expressing “deep concern” over a federal agency considering potential trade penalties for imported solar panel technology. The Friday letter spearheaded by Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who both hail from states with growing solar power...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), along with a bipartisan group of senators, are urging the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to not impose tariffs that would negatively affect the American solar industry. In a letter to Chairman Rhonda Schmidtlein, the lawmakers—who both...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will tour New Mexico Tech’s Magdalena Ridge Observatory on Friday, August 11, 2017 at 11 a.m. to announce congressional funding secured in the FY17 budget and meet with students to discuss the importance of New Mexico Tech’s leadership in science, technology, engineering...

PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich hosts a listening session at the Santa Fe Indian School with tribal representatives to discuss broadband connectivity in Indian Country. August 9, 2017.  SANTA FE, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hosted a listening session at the Santa Fe Indian School with members of two Pueblo...