press releases

WASHINGTON (Jan. 14, 2022) – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) highlighted how the historic Infrastructure Law is delivering major investments to infrastructure projects and priorities across New Mexico during a virtual Summit on City Infrastructure hosted by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. “This infrastructure law will...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 14, 2021) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are announcing that New Mexico will receive a total of $225 million over five years as part of the largest bridge formula program in American...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 12, 2022) – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined 38 of his Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing the Defending Ukraine Sovereignty Act of 2022, critical legislation to impose steep costs in the event of a renewed Kremlin invasion of Ukraine. As the Kremlin continues to engage in an unjustified...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 11, 2022) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are welcoming over $1 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support the Health and Public Safety Workforce Resiliency Training Program at the...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 10, 2021) – 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 $582,810 from the U.S. Department of Justice to enable Rio Arriba County's Health and Human Services Department to expand and enhance the existing Law Enforcement...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 7, 2022) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is part of a bicameral group of lawmakers that introduced the Tribal Medical Supplies Stockpile Access Act, legislation to guarantee that the Indian Health Service (IHS), Tribal health authorities, and urban Indian organizations have access to the Strategic National Stockpile...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 5, 2022) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement to recognize the anniversary of the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.  "What we saw on January 6th was a destruction of the shared truth that democracy relies on. We can only have a democracy if we can all agree to live...

As the riots in our nation's Capitol unfolded, New Mexico lawmakers were there witnessing the attack. It's a day Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich can't forget. "It was a pretty harrowing day. I witnessed firsthand some things I never thought I would see at the US Capitol. I'll just be blunt," Heinrich said. "I don't think anybody who was there...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 4, 2022) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the cofounder of the first-ever Electrification Caucus and member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is kicking off his return to D.C. by continuing his fight for investments in the Build Back Better Act that meet the challenges of the climate crisis, create...

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich announced bicameral legislation last week to seek federal approval for the state’s proposed constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, would tap an additional 1.25 percent from the Land Grant Permanent Fund. Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbuy, both Democrats, introduced the legislation. U.S....

Federal regulators are looking for ways to spend $250 million earmarked for cleaning up abandoned oil wells throughout the U.S. funded by the recent infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden. The program to distribute the federal dollars to states for cleaning up the wells was planned to be enacted by Jan....

Federal regulators are looking for ways to spend $250 million earmarked for cleaning up abandoned oil wells throughout the U.S. funded by the recent infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden. The program to distribute the federal dollars to states for cleaning up the wells was planned to be enacted by Jan....

Air Force bases in New Mexico including Alamogordo’s Holloman Air Force Base and Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis received millions of dollars in federal funding through an annual spending bill approved by Congress and sent to the desk of President Joe Biden to become law. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) also included funding...

New Mexico’s national laboratories and its repository for nuclear waste – the only of its kind in the nation – received millions of dollars this year via an annual bill that provides funding for national-defense-related facilities across the U.S. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was passed by both the U.S. House and...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 22, 2021) – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and U.S. Representatives Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) announced the addition of 24 lawmakers to the first-ever Electrification Caucus. Established in November, the bicameral caucus works to advance policies to...

In addition to providing about $2 billion for New Mexico military facilities and Department of Energy sites, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 contains another section that could interest some in the area. An amendment co-sponsored by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-Albuquerque) to establish a new office to gather and analyze...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 20, 2021) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined over 100 Democratic Senate and House members to reintroduce the bicameral Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, to fight the substance use disorder crisis, including the use of both opioids and stimulants. The CARE Act would provide state and local...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 17, 2021) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are calling on U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to increase oversight on CoreCivic’s management of the Torrance County...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 17, 2021) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) announced New Mexico airports have been allocated almost $18 million in federal Airport Infrastructure Grants under the recently enacted Bipartisan...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 17, 2021) - In an op-ed published by Fox News, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) describe how their bipartisanRecovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) of 2021 would invest in proactive, on-the-ground conservation work led by states, territories, and Tribal nations to support the long-term...