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WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined legislation led by U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to ease the burden of child care costs on working families by making permanent tax cuts that...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) reintroduced the bipartisan Two-Generation Economic Empowerment Act to increase opportunities for families living in poverty. The bill aligns and links existing systems and funding streams to target both parents and children with support aimed at increasing...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) are calling for the passage of their legislation, the Two-Generation Economic Empowerment Act, after a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that more coordination needs to be done at a national level to assist state and localities in...

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Late last week, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) held a press conference to note the introduction of two powerful pieces of legislation designed to ameliorate multigenerational poverty in New Mexico and the rest of the US, too. The two-generation system links services for parents and children in such a way as to enable success and increase...
Earlier this month, I hosted a Town Hall at the Las Cruces Convention Center with Senator Tom Udall. It was encouraging to see hundreds of people engage in our democracy and ask important questions about the direction of our state and nation. I am also grateful for the calls and letters I receive from New Mexicans every day in my offices about a...
A prosperous new future for New Mexico starts with investing in education. In recent decades, our state has kept college tuition lower than our neighboring states, supported programs like the Lottery Scholarship, and made sure community colleges, branch campuses, and tribal universities can serve communities across our state. All of that is...

MARTIN’S BLOG

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...
Dear Friend, Starting today, March 5, all veterans who were exposed to toxins and other hazards while serving in the military will be eligible to enroll directly in VA health care without first applying for VA benefits. This is thanks to the PACT Act, which I fought hard to pass into law. I encourage all veterans who were exposed to toxins through...

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