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Commercial traffic traveling south into Mexico through the Santa Teresa Port of Entry will soon enjoy expanded border-crossing hours thanks to a new agreement between Dell Inc. and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The federal agency approved a public-private partnership with Dell on Tuesday that allows the company to reimburse the government for...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today debuted legislation to open up renewable energy tax credits to Native American tribes. While the Senate scrambles to extend tax incentives for the expanding alternative energy sector, Heinrich and Grijalva offered their bills to give federally recognized Indian tribes...

Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico is prepared to unveil legislation today that would allow residents tapping into communal solar projects to offset power from traditional power plants and more easily connect to the grid. Heinrich's bill, S. 1723, the "Promoting Renewable Energy with Shared Solar Act of 2015," would amend the Public...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) spent Wednesday afternoon getting his hands dirty in Bandelier National Monument. Heinrich worked two hours with a preservation crew composed entirely of Puebloan youth who are helping to restore Tyuonyi Pueblo on the Main Loop Trail. The Bandelier Preservation crew is a pilot program sponsored by AmeriCorps and the...

The youngest Democrats in the Senate want to stake their claim on the party’s foreign policy agenda, and they hatched their plan in the most old school of ways — over dinner together. While most senators refer to each other as “my friend,”Christopher S. Murphy, Brian Schatz andMartin Heinrich actually are...

LISTEN: ‎http://kunm.org/post/heinrich-introduce-new-poverty-legislation#stream/0 U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich announced Monday that he will propose legislation to address poverty across multiple generations.  As many as 30 percent of children in New Mexico live in poverty. Part of what makes improving that statistic hard,...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) says he grew up a "utility brat." He was raised on a cattle ranch in a small town in central Missouri, where his father, Peter, worked as a utility lineman on the side and his mother, Shirley, worked on a factory assembly line, inspecting wheels. Heinrich said at a Progressive Policy Institute event in Washington,...

The United States faces unprecedented challenges abroad. The post-colonial status quo in the Middle East is breaking down, and terrorist groups such as Islamic State (also called ISIS) and al Qaeda present a grave threat to U.S. national security. Traditional powers such as Russia and China are challenging international norms and pushing the...

The United States faces unprecedented challenges abroad. The post-colonial status quo in the Middle East is breaking down, and terrorist groups such as Islamic State (also called ISIS) and al Qaeda present a grave threat to U.S. national security. Traditional powers such as Russia and China are challenging international norms and pushing the...

CROWNPOINT, NM – On Friday, June 5, 2015, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) visited the northwestern side of New Mexico in recognition and observance of regional efforts towards veteran affairs, affordable housing and higher education. While Senator Heinrich visited Gallup to witness and experience regional progress in veteran affairs...

GALLUP — The new Gallup Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic is more than 2,000 square feet larger than the previous clinic, enabling the facility to provide care and services for about 1,155 veterans in and around Gallup. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and Rep. Ben Ray Lujn celebrated the grand opening of the facility with a ribbon...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich wants electric utilities to invest in storage technology. The New Mexico Democrat and Maine Sen. Angus King have introduced legislation to establish a national energy storage portfolio standard. The bill would set targets for energy storage to meet growing demand and encourage the integration of renewable energy, including...

The local coalition recently is hosting a series of anniversary events this week in Las Cruces; and if you didn't already get the chance, we hope everyone soon will take the opportunity to enjoy and celebrate this very special national monument right here in our own backyard. On May 21, 2014, we watched proudly as a proclamation establishing the...

New Mexico is at a crossroads. We’ve heard that before. But our challenge is even more basic than that. We need to fundamentally change the trajectory of our state. While we’ve seen positive economic signs across the country, the picture in New Mexico remains stark. Our state’s unemployment rate is higher than the national...

New Mexico’s senators are co-sponsoring a bill that would establish two wilderness areas inside the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. Tom Udall, D-NM, and Martin Heinrich, D-NM, announced Thursday (May 7) the introduction of the Cerros del Norte Act, which would create a combined 21,420 acres of wilderness in far northern Taos...

The U.S. Air Force’s fiscal year 2016 budget request marked an important shift for a small but critical element of our national security: Operationally Responsive Space (ORS). For three consecutive years, the Pentagon attempted to terminate the ORS program, which seeks to design, build and launch satellites, faster and at less cost. Along...

Nuevo México está en una encrucijada. Hemos escuchado eso antes. Pero nuestro reto es aún más simple que eso. Tenemos que cambiar fundamentalmente la trayectoria de nuestro estado. Hemos visto señales económicas positivas en todo el país, pero la situación en Nuevo México sigue en...

Two top Democratic senators today vowed to fight GOP efforts to add amendments to fiscal 2016 budget resolutions calling for the sale of some federal lands to help pay off the nation's budget deficit. Sens. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Michael Bennet of Colorado said today during a brief teleconference with reporters that they are gearing up...

Senator Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, was hunting Barbary sheep in the southeastern part of his state a few weeks ago, and had a stark reminder of a problem he’s trying to fix with a bipartisan sportsmen’s bill. He and his friends had finished hunting one swath of public land, and scanned a BLM map for the kind of terrain the sheep...

New Mexico has deep roots in developing space technology and contributing to our nation’s space program. At a time when few Americans recognized the true potential of rocketry, physicist Robert Goddard moved to Roswell to conduct his research in 1930. While living there, he developed various new rocket systems, and launched the first flight...