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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, welcomed President Joe Biden’s launch of the American Climate Corps, which will put more than 20,000 young people on skilled trades career pathways in the growing fields of...
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) announced that the Southwest Advanced Prototyping (SWAP) Hub has been selected to be funded through the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Microelectronics Commons program. The announcement marks the first official allocation of funding through the CHIPS and Science...
WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the HELP...
IN THE NEWS
July 12th, 2023
Regenerative agriculture offers sustainability, climate resilience to local ranchers
On a ranch in Valle Escondido last Wednesday (July 5), U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies, met with local ranchers and producers and Taos County commissioners Darlene Vigil and Ronald Mascareñas to discuss how the...
White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu and Sen. Martin Heinrich toured a home in Albuquerque’s International District that was having its electrical systems upgraded.
Landrieu and Heinrich visited the Morales’ home near La Mesa Elementary in Albuquerque.
The Morales family bought the home in 1962 and its current owner is...
White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu was in New Mexico Thursday for a two-day visit as part of the Biden Administration’s “Investing in America Tour.” He’s highlighting millions of dollars in federal investments in Albuquerque and rural parts of the state.
Landrieu says the Biden administration has...
MARTIN’S BLOG
Dear Friend,
The Buffalo Tract is clearly the wrong place for a gravel mine. The environmental impacts on a landscape that many New Mexicans treasure would be irreparable. That’s why I am pleased the Biden administration is heeding the calls of New Mexicans who have stood united in defense of the Buffalo Tract for well over a decade.
This...
Dear Friend,
New Mexico competes best when we compete as ourselves. Albuquerque is not Austin or Raleigh-Durham. New Mexico is not New York or California. Our people, our history, and our environment are unlike anywhere else. And we should embrace that.
This morning, in a speech to the Albuquerque Economic Forum, I laid out my vision for an...
Dear Friend,
When President Biden arrived in New Mexico this week, I hand delivered a letter to him urging additional investments and forward-looking missions at Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis.
I hope you can take a moment to watch and share the KOB story below about how New Mexico’s Congressional Delegation is fighting to secure a strong...
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