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RUIDOSO, N.M. – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) met with families, local and Tribal leaders, firefighters, first responders, and emergency operation commanders in Roswell, Ruidoso, and the Mescalero Apache Reservation, discussing the response to and impacts of the South Fork and Salt...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) applauded Senate passage of his bipartisan Fire Grants and Safety Act, legislation to extend federal programs that help support local fire departments in New Mexico and across the country. The bill would reauthorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Staffing for Adequate Fire and...
RUIDOSO, N.M. – 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.) released the following joint statement, announcing that President Joe Biden has approved a Major Disaster Declaration for Lincoln County and the Mescalero...
IN THE NEWS
This month, we mark two years since the worst fire in our state’s history.
The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses. The fire, and the flooding that followed, displaced thousands of New Mexicans for weeks and months on end. In a matter of months, this catastrophe wiped away generations of history and uprooted...
As firefighters across the West continue to battle what experts are describing as one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in recent memory, a group of U.S. senators, including Democrats Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, are trying to get a sense of how prepared the National Guard is to help combat large-scale blazes.
Udall and...
Many of us in New Mexico are fortunate to have a national forest right outside our backyard. We rely on these forests for drinking water and firewood, to fill our freezers, and to support our outdoor recreation economy.
However, as temperatures heat up and we enter fire season after a particularly dry winter, we are also acutely aware that some of...
MARTIN’S BLOG
Dear Friend,
Native peoples have lived in the land we now call New Mexico and the United States for thousands of years.
I am honored to work with the Pueblos and Tribes who call New Mexico home, and with Tribes all across Indian Country. As part of that work, I have been proud to lead legislation in the Senate to re-frame this national holiday as...
Dear Friend,
Every New Mexican who’s looked at buying a home knows: housing prices are too high. To solve that, we need to build and renovate more homes. It really is that straightforward.
As Chairman of the U.S. Joint Economic Committee, I recently released a report on housing supply in America, which found that underbuilding, restrictive zoning...
Dear Friend,
Earlier this year, I was proud to help lead the effort in the Senate to pass an extension and long overdue expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) that includes the Tularosa Basin Downwinders whose communities and families were downwind from the 1945 Trinity Test, all of the uranium miners exposed to radiation in...
Photos
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Heinrich Unveils N.M. Minority Business Development Center’s New Office in AlbuquerqueHeinrich Unveils N.M. Minority Business Development Center’s New Office in Albuquerque
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Heinrich unveils New Mexico Minority Business Development Center (Business Center)Heinrich unveils New Mexico Minority Business Development Center (Business Center)
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