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WASHINGTON – Today, in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ensure nutritional needs are met for those suffering from the most severe forms of hunger by including...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the co-founder and co-chair of the Bicameral Electrification Caucus, and U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) introduced legislation to establish a new federal tax credit to enable local small businesses, including...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined Senate colleagues to introduce the Abortion Care Capacity Enhancement and Support Services (ACCESS) Act. This legislation would establish a federal grant program for health care organizations to expand their capacity to provide abortion services and additional reproductive care in New Mexico...

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“To put it bluntly: Republicans chose to help Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, destabilize the Middle East, and stoke chaos and dysfunction at our southern border. All to preserve their political talking point,” Heinrich said in a statement Wednesday. “Republicans spectacularly failed to protect the American people and made our world more dangerous. The...
Actress Melissa Joan Hart joined Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and other advocates to rally support for his legislation that would restrict access to certain semi-automatic firearms, large-capacity magazines and related conversion devices.
There have been more mass shootings in the U.S. than days in 2023. Our nation continues to reel from a skyrocketing rate of mass casualty tragedies—from Las Vegas, Uvalde, Buffalo, El Paso, Orlando, Parkland, Tucson, Sutherland Springs, and Sandy Hook to Nashville, Lewiston, Maine, Allen, Texas, Monterey Park, Calif., and Farmington, N.M. in just...

MARTIN’S BLOG

PHOTO: Former Cochiti Pueblo Governor and U.S. Marine Corps and Vietnam Veteran Dr. Joseph Suina is presented with service medals he earned through his military service, March 22, 2024.   Dear Friend, Last week, at a ceremony at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial in Albuquerque, my office presented former Cochiti Pueblo Governor and U.S. Marine Corps...
Dear Friend, During his State of the Union address, President Biden called on Congress to put working families first to move our country forward. I couldn’t agree more. One proven strategy to support working families is full-service community schools, which improve outcomes for our kids by helping public schools deliver wraparound support services...
Dear Friend, Nearly 80 years ago, in central New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin, at a place we now call the Trinity Site, the world as we knew it changed. The Trinity Test was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in human history. The families who lived downwind from the Trinity explosion in the Tularosa Basin have lived the consequences of that day...

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