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A dozen Senate Dems ask U.S. Central Command whether American forces have provided support to Israel’s forced displacement of 1,000,000 civilians in Lebanon New Mexico – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and nine Senate Democrats in requesting answers from U.S. Central Command...
SANTA FE, N.M. — At a press conference in front of La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and co-founder of the U.S. Senate Stewardship Caucus, and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Natural...
Heinrich: “The Trump administration is making policy choices that are showing up in our costs...We need to push back against these policies — they just don’t make any sense” PHOTOS ALBUQUERQUE — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hosted a roundtable with local small business owners, Roadrunner Food Bank, and Women’s Economic...

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After hours of impassioned debate on the Senate floor late Wednesday night, U.S. senators voted Thursday morning 50 to 49 to roll back key protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. It resurrects a proposal to develop of a foreign-owned copper-nickel mine at the headwaters of America’s most popular...
The United States Senate voted today on H.J. 140 to repeal the 20-year mining moratorium on federal land in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Area. The vote, which was an unprecedented use of the Congressional Review Act, passed narrowly, with 50 Republican Senators voting in favor of the action; 49 Senators opposed it,...
The top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is probing whether the Trump administration adequately planned for the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has roiled energy markets for weeks as the war with Iran drags on. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., in a letter dated Tuesday to Energy Secretary Chris Wright,...

MARTIN’S BLOG

Dear Friend, I voted against Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence today. Here’s why:  Time and again, Ms. Gabbard has elevated conspiracy theories, parroted dictators’ talking points, and repeatedly undermined our country’s national security. Her poor judgment and lack of national...
Dear Friend, We’re losing nearly 75,000 Americans each year to illicit fentanyl overdoses. I refuse to accept this reality. That’s why I’m working to deliver the tools law enforcement personnel need to keep these extremely lethal and dangerous drugs off our streets and ensure scientists can research and better understand these substances.
Dear Friend,  Our economy, our healthcare system, our schools, our law enforcement and fire departments, our newborns, our elders, our veterans – everyone, everywhere in New Mexico. President Trump is attempting to shove all of this over a cliff. In New Mexico alone, Trump's blockade on federal funding will make it impossible for thousands to pay...

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