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New Mexico U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich says Congress must approve legislation that will offer significant relief during the pandemic.  He also talked about President Trump's executive actions related to pandemic relief, calling them inadequate. In addition, Heinrich says Congress must take action to protect funding for the U.S. Post Office,...

New Mexico has passed a key threshold in its transition away from fossil fuels. Public Service Company of New Mexico, a utility owned by PNM Resources, will build 650 megawatts of solar power and 300 megawatts of battery capacity to divest its share of the San Juan coal plant in 2022. The unanimous decision last week by the Public...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation criticized a decision this week by the Trump administration moving up the end of field data collection for the 2020 Census from Oct. 31 to Sept. 30. U.S. Sen. Tom Udall called the decision an “obvious attempt to skew the count,” while fellow Democrat U.S....

For decades, the conservation community has been advocating for the full and permanent funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program that uses royalties from offshore oil and gas operations to purchase new public lands and maintain public access. Today President Donald Trump—who has often been criticized by conservation and...

Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation praised President Donald Trump’s signing of the Great American Outdoors Act as a victory for conservation and a help for an economy crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The president signed the legislation Tuesday. It will provide $1.9 billion a year for five years to help clear a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a stroke culminating years of work by Democratic and Republican lawmakers, President Donald Trump signed into law Tuesday morning a bill guaranteeing full annual funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. "America’s natural landscapes belong to the American people," the president said in an address...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Donald Trump’s executive order last week excluding undocumented immigrants from census data could lead to an undercount in New Mexico, members of the state’s congressional delegation said. But the White House said states should not be rewarded for welcoming immigrants who are here illegally. The order...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Legislation to prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties for stealing and illegally trafficking tribal cultural inherited property introduced by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was passed by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The...

In an unusual move laced with unmistakable tones of anger, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich called for the resignation of controversial Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales on Tuesday, claiming Gonzales was inviting federal law enforcement agents — who he called “the president’s stormtroopers” — to Albuquerque. CBS News...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The extra $600 unemployed New Mexicans are receiving is scheduled to stop at the end of the month. However, lawmakers in Washington D.C. are working on a second stimulus package that could provide more money for unemployment. "Congress has a moral responsibility to address the pain and suffering happening across the nation, in...

Albuquerque’s mayor along with the chief of police voiced opposition to a reported plan by the Trump administration to send additional federal law enforcement to Albuquerque and other cities across the nation. CBS News first reported on the memo and U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich said he was told by the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico that...

KSFR News Director Tom Trowbridge was recently (on July 16th, 2020) provided an opportunity to speak with New Mexico Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich. Trowbridge began by discussing The Great American Outdoors Act that he is co-sponsoring… and asked where it is now in the Congressional process? 

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich is calling for the resignation of Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales. “Sheriff Gonzales wasn’t representing Bernalillo County when he opposed body cameras. He wasn’t representing Bernalillo County when he opposed efforts for common sense gun violence reforms. And he isn’t...

The great western writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that America’s great outdoors represent “the geography of hope.” At this time of grave crisis for our nation, millions of Americans — many of them out of work, worried about their health, and struggling to put food on the table — are seeking hope....

On this week’s episode, the crew is joined by Land Tawney, President/CEO of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, to talk about the Great American Outdoors Act and its potential impact on our public lands and waters. To help in that discussion Ben and MeatEater’s Sam Lungren call Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH),...

The three members of New Mexico’s U.S. House delegation voted in favor of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on Thursday, which passed with a 236-181 vote. “While more work must still be done, this legislation takes important steps by increasing accountability, banning dangerous chokeholds and no-knock warrants, requiring body and...

New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall were among Democrats who blocked a Republican police reform bill Wednesday, calling it “flawed” and “inadequate.” The legislation, called the Justice Act, failed to receive the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate. It failed on a 56-44 vote. The House is expected to vote on...

REI President and CEO Eric Artz hosted a virtual fireside chat last Thursday with Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), two legislators who have supported outdoor recreation and public lands policy. Artz began by acknowledging how fortunate it was for the co-op “to be joined by two champions for the outdoors … [who]...

On June 17th, the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act with a vote of 73 yays and 25 nays. This news made headlines across an America that was reeling from protests, amid the profound uncertainty of a pandemic, at a time of polarized politics at a scale and fury not seen since the Civil War. As Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico...

New Mexico’s national laboratories would recieve an increase in funding from the 2021 defense spending bill before the U.S. Senate, if approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump. Los Alamos National Laboratory would receive $3.22 billion, up from $2.3 billion in fiscal year 2020, through the National Nuclear Security...