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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) welcomed the U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement that it has awarded $3,536,789 from the Infrastructure Law’s Renew America’s Nonprofits Program to...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, announced that he is cosponsoring the Kids Online Safety Act, bipartisan legislation to provide kids and parents with better tools to protect themselves online, hold Big Tech accountable, and provide transparency into black box...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the co-founder and co-chair of the Electrification Caucus, joins advocates in New Mexico in welcoming last week’s guidance from the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that will significantly...

IN THE NEWS

LAS CRUCES - In the closing weeks of the 116th Congress, New Mexico's congressional delegation in Washington celebrated the completion Thursday of a $740.5 billion compromise defense bill for 2021.  The conference bill reconciles versions previously passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Among the 53 House conferees was...
Today, we’re facing the greatest public health and economic crises in our lifetimes. Meeting the full scale of the challenges we face will require big thinking and big solutions. In short, this moment demands that we invest in innovation. Our country has a long history of discovering and developing solutions to the world’s most...
As someone with a background in mechanical engineering, I always believe we need to rely on science as we create solutions to the problems we face. The COVID-19 pandemic is a problem on a scale that most of us have never faced before. Many of the world’s brightest scientists are discovering new information about the virus every day. It is by...

MARTIN’S BLOG

Dear Friend,   After years of fighting alongside you, I am relieved to share that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has finally agreed to transfer the remainder of the retired chimpanzees in its custody at Holloman Air Force Base to Chimp Haven, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana.   Throughout my time in Congress, I have been proud to join...
Dear Friend, When it comes to crime, my focus is on preventing what we can and solving it when we can’t. Yesterday, I visited with the Las Cruces Police Department to highlight recent funding I’ve secured for law enforcement to tackle gun violence, solve crimes, and hold criminals accountable in Southern New Mexico.
Dear Friend, Last week, I hosted a Pro-Worker, Pro-Business Opportunities Roundtable in Albuquerque with folks in the health care, education, and skilled trades workforce. We discussed how legislation we’ve passed into law—like the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Law, and the CHIPS and Science Act—is growing our middle class and...

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