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  • — by Associated Press
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Water projects in New Mexico would get a boost as part of a massive bill passed by Congress that seeks to improve the nation’s dams and protect against floods and drought. The bill, if signed by President Donald Trump, would authorize more than $6 billion in spending over 10 years for projects nationwide. It also...
  • — by Noel Lyn Smith
    FARMINGTON — Federal legislation aimed at protecting and assisting Native Americans in voting has been introduced by several Democrats in the U.S. Senate. More than a dozen senators, including Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both of New Mexico, introduced the Native American Voting Rights Act of 2018 to provide resources and...
  • — by Zachary Shahan
    Several Democratic Senators and Representatives have introduced legislation to extend the US federal tax credit for zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) by 10 years. The extension is wrapped in the Electric Cars Act of 2018. Senators co-sponsoring the bill include Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Kamala Harris...
  • — by Collin Krabbe
    The University of New Mexico has been awarded $20 million from the National Science Foundation to build a research and education program to help develop a more modern electric grid. The project aims to connect scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories with students and researchers from New Mexico's higher...
  • — by KRQE Media
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - Lawmakers have devised a new plan to keep the Southwest Chief running through New Mexico. U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall are fighting to stop Amtrak from replacing some services with buses. The train currently runs through Raton, Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Gallup and costs $4 million to maintain the...
  • — by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
    Small businesses are the engine of our nation’s economy. But too often they get left behind by federal policies that reflect the priorities of large multinational companies and urban hubs. Last month, my staff hosted a series of roundtables with small business owners. What we heard in communities across the state — from Albuquerque to...
  • — by KRQE Media
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - Albuquerque Public Schools is getting thousands of dollars for a new language program. U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced APS will receive $249,000 to teach Native American languages at schools. The funding will support three years of instruction of both the Navajo and Zuni languages at the elementary...
  • — by Sun-News report
    WASHINGTON -- New Mexico State University has been awarded $2,633,530 in funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the NSF National Resource Hub for STEM Education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Resource Hub). U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both D-NM, announced the award Friday. The HSI Resource Hub will...
  • — by Arit John, Erik Wasson, and Alexandre Tanzi
    Republican Claudia Tenney has a good news message about a robust U.S. economy for voters in her central New York congressional district. It’s a hard sell, though, in a region where jobs are disappearing and salary increases are small. That’s created an opening for Democrats to target the first-term congresswoman -- an ardent supporter...
  • — by Deborah Fox
    LOS LUNAS — Expansion of the village of Los Lunas just received a boost from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The U.S. Department of Commerce is investing $1.3 million in Los Lunas for water infrastructure improvements to support business growth in the village. The project is expected to create 3,000 jobs. U.S. Secretary of Commerce...
  • Senator Heinrich, Democrat from New Mexico and a member of the Intelligence Committee, gives insight into Russian hacking and admits he and his family have been targeted: “In today’s world that kind of activity, especially spear-fishing, happens all the time," adding, “You certainly can’t be shocked" if the hackers were...
  • — by Tom Trowbridge
    On this date 53-years ago, July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law Social Security Amendments that established Medicare and Medicaid, promising that they would "improve a wide range of health and medical services for Americans of all ages." KSFR’s Tom Trowbridge recently spoke with Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich, on...
  • — by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Chris Van Hollen
    Today is the 53rd anniversary of President Johnson signing the Medicare Act into law. When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised voters that he was not going to make any cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security that the 1965 law created and strengthened. Based on the last two decades of Republican leadership...
  • — by T.S. Last
    SANTA FE – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators from five states, including New Mexico Democrats Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, is urging Amtrak to keep train passenger service over all of the route of the Southwest Chief, which runs daily between Chicago and Los Angeles. New Mexico’s delegation also joined senators from Kansas and...
  • — by Noel Lyn Smith
    SHIPROCK — Work started this week to rehabilitate the runway at the Shiprock Airstrip. Carl Slater, manager for the Department of Airports Management at the Navajo Division of Transportation, said construction started Monday to renovate the runway, including new pavement and installing a lighting system. The runway is 5,210 feet...
  • WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Steve Pearce and Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday urged the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to reverse tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Canadian newsprint, which threaten local newspapers across New Mexico. In a...
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced Tuesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to the senators’ request to provide $6.5 million in infrastructure funding to complete a flood management project in Alamogordo, according to a joint press release from Udall and Heinrich’s offices. In the...
  • — by Adrian C Hedden
    The primary elevators at Carlsbad Caverns National Park went back into service last week after a three-year modernization project following a breakdown in 2015. Next, the park planned to rebuild the small secondary, or backup, elevators which were used during the shutdown of the primary system. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) questioned...
  • — by Hayden Carpenter
    I’m standing in the heart of White Sands National Monument, in southern New Mexico, the largest gypsum dune field in the world. A sea of sand stretches as far as the eye can see—white waves and crests and curls, all uniformly rippled on the surface. The place is so vast that it’s visible from space. If new...
  • — by Jessica Dyer
    Some of the country’s most sensitive nuclear security functions are performed in outdated, run-down buildings on Kirtland Air Force Base. It’s a problem New Mexico’s elected officials and federal government administrators say they are now addressing with a massive new facility. The National Nuclear Security Administration on...