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WASHINGTON – Today, during a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2024 budget for the U.S. Department of Treasury, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) asked Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about the relative role of the Trump tax cuts in creating the current structural deficit.   WATCH: Hearing, Heinrich Highlights Trump...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) introduced the bipartisan Colorectal Cancer Detection Act, legislation to increase access to colorectal cancer screenings. Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men and women in the United States, and is the second...
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 $11,482,174 in Infrastructure Law funding to make New Mexico communities more resilient to wildfires and strengthen the...

IN THE NEWS

WASHINGTON — Congress’ Joint Economic Committee released a report Thursday detailing the economic repercussions of defaulting on the nation’s debt, adding fuel to the fire as Democrats pressed Republicans to address the nation’s borrowing limit without tying action to spending cuts. The report, from Democratic staff on the...
In the wake of the collapse of two large banks, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and other Democrats are seeking to repeal a 2018 law that reduced oversight and capital requirements for certain financial institutions. The legislation would seek to repeal Title IV of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act of 2018. The bill...
“The team will respond to residents suffering from mental health emergencies, assist with de-escalating critical situations, and help individuals connect with the medical or psychological resources they may need,” according to a news release issued by the City of Las Cruces. Project LIGHT will operate from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. six days a...

MARTIN’S BLOG

Dear Friend, Thirteen years ago today, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. I will always be proud that one of the first votes I ever took in Congress—and still one of the most meaningful—was to pass the ACA. Since then, I have heard from thousands of New Mexicans about how the ACA has helped...
Dear Friend, Last fall, Santa Fe resident Evaggelos Klonis contacted my office to see if we could help him with expediting the replacement of his passport. Mr. Klonis had been pursuing a master’s degree abroad and living in Germany with his fiancée, who was expecting their first child. He traveled back to New Mexico to make...
Dear Friend, For more than a decade now, New Mexicans have stood united in defense of the Buffalo Tract. These parcels of federal Bureau of Land Management land are intermixed with residential communities in Sandoval County and are important landscapes for Santa Ana and San Felipe Pueblos. They also serve as a critical wildlife corridor between the...

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