Martin's Blog

Dear Friend, After two incredibly challenging years, the American economy is roaring back. It is growing faster than it has grown since 1984. We just added nearly half a million jobs in January—and more than 7 million jobs over the course of the last year. The last year has also seen the largest drop in the unemployment rate and the largest...

PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (right) joins U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, and members of Congress to announce historic funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to establish a nationwide electric vehicle (EV) charging network,...

Dear Friend, I wanted you to know that I am joining Senators Tammy Duckworth and John Kennedy to introduce the Chimp Sanctuary Act, which would prohibit the housing of chimpanzees at U.S. Air Force installations starting 180 days after enactment. It would also require any chimpanzees currently housed by the Air Force to be transported to Chimp...

Dear Friend, Today, I was proud to welcome $43.7 million in the first phase of funding available to New Mexico from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to create jobs cleaning up orphan oil and gas wells across the state. These abandoned oil wells are an enormous source of methane pollution, a greenhouse gas that is 86 times more potent than...

Dear Friend, I remain squarely focused on delivering the resources that New Mexicans need for short-term recovery and steering game changing investments to our state that will set a strong foundation for our long-term economic competitiveness.  I hope you can take a moment to read and share a column I recently wrote in the Las Cruces Hispanic...

Dear Friend, The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is the largest long-term investment in New Mexico infrastructure and competitiveness in nearly a century. I am proud to help deliver more than $3.7 billion in formula funding to New Mexico, plus additional competitive funding, to repair our roads and bridges, improve our water infrastructure,...

Dear Friend, Yesterday, I was proud to visit Valencia County to shine a light on some of the transformative infrastructure investments that I was proud to secure by passing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. New Mexico will receive more than $3.7 billion from this new law over the next five years to repair our roads and bridges,...

Dear Friend, What we saw on January 6th was a destruction of the shared truth that democracy relies on. We can only have a democracy if we can all agree to live by the results of our elections, and we accept the math. The Big Lie that Donald Trump created was all about him trying to hold power for himself. But what is even more dangerous is that it...

Dear Friend, I’m not willing to take no for an answer on climate action. If we want to pass on to future generations a livable planet, we can’t wait any longer. Today, I joined the League of Conservation Voters, Climate Power, and several of my colleagues in the Senate and House for a virtual press conference to demand that we find a way forward on...

Dear Friend, As we reach the end of a very busy and hard year, I want to pause and take stock of all we have accomplished for New Mexico and our country. While we still have plenty of work to do, I’m confident that the historic, new investments we’ve made and the transformative policies we’re advancing will help us meet the moment and find real...

Dear Friend, I hope you can take a moment to read and share the column I wrote in Fox News with my Republican colleague, Senator Roy Blunt, on our bipartisan legislation, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act—or RAWA for short. We both agree that it’s absolutely critical for us to act if we want to save thousands of imperiled species of plants and...

Dear Friend, I have long said that the key to making New Mexico the best place to raise a family, to start or expand a business, to find a good-paying job, and to hire the best and brightest employees, is to invest more in our kids. Back in 2014, I was the first member of the New Mexico Congressional Delegation to publicly support the proposal to...

PHOTO: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) testify in a hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on their bipartisan legislation, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, December 8, 2021. Dear Friend, I want my grandchildren to experience the same wonder I had as a child catching leopard frogs and...

Dear Friend, In the face of rapidly diminishing flows on our Western rivers like the Colorado and the Rio Grande, it could not be more urgent for us to protect some of the few remaining stretches of wild and free-flowing rivers in New Mexico. That’s why I am proud to introduce the M.H. Dutch Salmon Gila Wild and Scenic River Act alongside Senator...

Dear Friend, I hosted a Facebook Live discussion today with Dr. Heather Pratt-Chavez, a pediatrician at the University of New Mexico Hospital, about the safe, effective, and approved COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 and older. As a parent of two teenage boys, I thought it would be helpful for parents around New Mexico to hear directly from a...

Dear Friend, Since I’ve been in Congress, I’ve worked with Tribal leaders and New Mexicans to secure a series of actions that have prevented new oil and gas leasing in the vicinity of Chaco Culture National Historical Park. I’m proud to welcome the Biden administration’s announcement today at the Tribal Nations Summit that it will begin the process...

Dear Friend, New Mexico has long been held back by a systemic lack of investment in our infrastructure. The pandemic laid bare the stark reality that too many New Mexicans still lack access to clean drinking water, much less high-speed internet. With the passage of the historic and bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, we will finally...

Dear Friend, On Veterans Day, I continue to be proud to serve a state with one of the highest rates of military volunteerism in the nation. We should all pause to honor the many New Mexicans who served in conflicts overseas—from the Navajo Code Talkers and the Bataan Death March Survivors to Vietnam GIs and Iraq and Afghanistan veterans—as well as...

Dear Friend, I am doing everything I can to make sure we pass the investments in the Build Back Better agenda that meet the challenges of the climate crisis, create good-paying jobs, and reduce costs for families. Next month, I will also be attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where the world’s leaders will convene to...