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Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich and Mark Kelly will introduce legislation in the Senate on Tuesday that would strip out a provision in the just-passed government funding bill that allows senators to sue the government if their phone records are investigated without notifying them. The bill comes after Senate Republicans included within the massive...

New Mexicans are leading bills in Congress to reverse a measure that allows U.S. senators to sue the government and receive $500,000 or more for subpoenaed phone records. A stopgap funding bill signed into law last week ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. It also included a provision that requires the FBI and the Justice...

Right now, the House is debating ahead of their vote to compel the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. If passed, it will move to the Senate where Majority Leader Thune (R-SD) has yet to say whether he will put it up for a vote. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) joins Chris Jansing to discuss the fallout.

Two members of the New Mexico congressional delegation are taking the lead in repealing a provision of the recently passed government funding bill that allows senators to receive payments whose phone records were accessed by Jan. 6 investigators without their knowledge. In the U.S. Senate, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-AZ,...

The New Mexico congressional delegation on Monday called for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to release November grant reimbursements to Head Start programs, including three of the state’s Tribal Head Start programs. Head Start is a federally funded program that provides early education, early screening, meals and supports...

House and Senate committee reports accompanying each chamber’s fiscal year 2026 funding bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs encouraged the department to use further innovative tools — such as artificial intelligence — to better identify veterans at high risk of suicide. The House and Senate passed separate versions of VA’s FY26 funding bill...

On Monday, the New Mexico Economic Development Department announced that California-based Castelion Corp. will build its 1,000-acre manufacturing plant, known as ‘Project Ranger,’ in Sandoval County. The facility will build solid rocket motors, conduct static tests and “assemble components to produce finished rounds,” according to a news...

New Mexico’s senior U.S. senator has renewed his standing call for the closure of the Torrance County Detention Facility, citing “continuing and systemic failures” to ensure humane conditions at the lockup. In a Nov. 7 letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons, Sen. Martin Heinrich also cited the Oct. 31...

Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation say the office overseeing $5.45 billion in compensation funds for victims of the state’s biggest-ever wildfire continues to delay payments and put up unnecessary barriers, particularly for people who lost their homes. The Nov. 6 letter from U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, along with U.S. Sens....

New Mexicans anxious about missing SNAP benefits or federal paychecks may get soon get some relief after a handful of Senate Democrats joined Republicans over the weekend in a deal to reopen the government, though New Mexico’s two U.S. senators did not go along, saying the deal abandons hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans facing sharply higher...

The Bureau of Land Management has reopened a review of federal protections near Chaco Culture National Historical Park, signaling that the Trump Administration may reverse a 20-year withdrawal that blocked new oil and gas leasing across more than 330,000 acres of public land in northwest New Mexico. The agency’s Oct. 30 letter to tribal governments...

In a letter Thursday, New Mexico’s congressional delegation continued exhorting U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to change course on plans to rescind federal protections around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. In 2023, under the Biden Administration, the federal government issued Public Land Order No. 7923, banning further oil and gas...

Senate Democrats wrote a Wednesday letter to President Trump seeking clarification on the scope of resumed nuclear testing after Energy Secretary Chris Wright said such testing will not include nuclear explosions. “While Secretary Wright recently sought to provide context to the directive you announced last week, we request that you personally...

Pueblos and advocacy groups that spent decades trying to safeguard one of the most sacred sites of Puebloan culture may soon see all that hard work undone, as the Trump administration considers reopening land around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park to oil and gas drilling as well as mining. In a statement to New Mexico Political Report,...

E&E DAILY | Three top Senate Democrats are asking the White House to answer questions and turn over documents about President Donald Trump's proposed ballroom project, which involved demolition of the mansion's East Wing. Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin...

New Mexico Democratic Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan are among the senators who have signed a letter urging the Trump administration to back away from its plan to increase beef imports from Argentina. Heinrich stated in a press release on Tuesday that he, Lujan and 14 other Democratic senators sent a letter to U.S Trade Rep. Jamieson...

E&E DAILY | A bipartisan Senate caucus aimed at protecting public lands charted its course at a launch event Monday, just months after a congressional push to sell public lands rallied dozens of lawmakers to kill the proposal. The group, dubbed the “Senate Stewardship Caucus,” will focus on promoting bipartisan legislation to conserve public...

New Mexico Democratic Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan on Thursday disputed claims made by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that they lack the funds to cover the cost of next month’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Heinrich and Lujan were among 45 Democratic Senators who signed onto a letter to...

New Mexico’s U.S. senators are urging the Department of Agriculture to fund federal food benefits for more than 450,000 New Mexicans as the federal shutdown threatens to halt November’s aid. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., helped lead dozens of Senate colleagues, including Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., in urging the federal agency to “immediately release...

Three members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation said Thursday that the United States Department of Agriculture has all the money it needs to keep food assistance flowing to 42 million Americans in November, despite officials’ claims otherwise. In a little more than a week, more than 450,000 New Mexicans will likely not receive SNAP payments,...