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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) welcomed the announcement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $191,000...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) today introduced the Literacy Improvement for Transformation (LIFT) Act, legislation that aims to improve literacy outcomes for all students by ensuring that every K-12 public school has at least one full-time reading or literacy specialist on staff.   More than 8 million low-income K-5 students in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, announced that he is cosponsoring the Kids Online Safety Act, bipartisan legislation to provide kids and parents with better tools to protect themselves online, hold Big Tech accountable, and provide transparency into black box...

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined legislation led by U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to ease the burden of child care costs on working families by making permanent tax cuts that...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced that the U.S. Senate has passed a bipartisan resolution they introduced to recognize National Board Certified Teachers by designating the last week of January as “National Board Certified Teacher Week.”   “My...

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) introduced a resolution to recognize National Board Certified Teachers by designating the last week of January as “National Board Certified Teacher Week.” The resolution also encourages administrators, school...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) toured the Trades and Advanced Technology Center at Santa Fe Community College and discussed how the Inflation Reduction Act is creating new careers New Mexicans can build their families around, lowering home appliance costs for families, making homes healthier, and advancing the...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced final passage of the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act, legislation he cosponsored to protect access to educational enrichment programs and activities such as archery and hunting safety education under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA). The legislation now goes to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced the bipartisan Apprenticeship Pathways Act, legislation to create pathways to careers for high school students by expanding access to apprenticeship programs.     Apprenticeships offer a direct path to acquiring in-demand skills, and...

SILVER CITY, N.M. – Tuesday and Wednesday, April 11 and 12, 2023, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will celebrate newly reintroduced legislation, a recent federal grant to the Silver Consolidated Schools, and the work being done with previously secured federal funding at Western New Mexico University.   On Tuesday, April...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Vice Chair of the National Service Congressional Caucus and the first AmeriCorps alum to serve in the United States Senate, joined Senate Co-Chairs Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Vice Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), and House of Representatives Co-Chairs Garret Graves...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) was honored with the “Best of Green Schools Award” for his work on the Living Schoolyards Act by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council, in collaboration with the Green Schools National Network. The award celebrate the...

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.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) announced a total of $5,277,082 for Eastern New Mexico University Roswell, New Mexico State University, and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) addressed a Joint Session of the New Mexico State Legislature at the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe. Senator Heinrich laid out his vision for maximizing this moment of unprecedented state budget revenues and federal investments to broaden New Mexico's economic base and go...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) met with students and leaders from Hatch Valley Public Schools on Thursday to discuss how direct federal investments are opening the door for more students to house and care for livestock and strengthening the pathway to careers in animal...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, announced $59,610,471 to the Alamogordo School District to continue the construction of new Holloman Elementary and Middle Schools located on Holloman Air Force Base (AFB). Once completed, up to 600 students will be supported at Holloman...

WASHINGTON - 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.) secured language to unlock major investments in early childhood and K-12 education in New Mexico in the bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Agreement for Fiscal Year...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced the Living Schoolyards Act that will enable schools to completely re-envision their outdoor school grounds with the goal of providing more hands-on learning opportunities, strengthening local ecological systems, and giving every single child a place where they can learn and play...

TAOS, N.M. – On Thursday, October 6, at 12 p.m. MT, in Taos, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will deliver remarks at the New Mexico Outdoor Economics Conference. The conference will highlight successful community economic development efforts within and outside of New Mexico that are connected to protected lands and focus on the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) to mark Hispanic Heritage Month by leading a bipartisan group of senators in introducing a Senate resolution that recognizes September 15th through October 15th, 2022 as a month to celebrate...