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I would like to congratulate the Las Cruces Hispanic Chamber on celebrating 25 years of service and leadership. The Chamber continues to play an integral role in supporting existing small businesses, while fostering new business development. Many businesses in southern New Mexico depend on the region’s proximity to Mexico, one...

WASHINGTON (KRQE) – Members of Congress, including New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich are joining forces to stop the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs. “It is happening because it can happen. The goal of pharmaceutical companies: make as much profit as they can and to hell with the needs of American people,” Sen. Bernie...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.(KRQE) – The Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque has been no stranger to bomb threats, which are being made to JCC’s across the nation. Just last week, the Albuquerque JCC had their second bomb threat in two weeks. “It’s been the goals of our enemies to disrupt us, but we are...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, who was criticized by some fellow Democrats last month for opposing a measure that would make it easier to buy inexpensive prescription drugs from Canada, on Tuesday backed a new drug importation bill, saying it addresses his concerns about safety. The bill announced at a press conference Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol...

Heinrich speaks to a packed house at Taos Mesa Brewing. Photo: KATHARINE EGLI With the Taos Mesa Brewing Mothership packed as it was the morning of Feb. 21, you might think a big-name band was rolling through town. Instead, folks were gathered to hear U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, speak about the importance of public lands and the fight to...

Rana Al-Shaikli, an Iraqi refugee who made it to Albuquerque last year after seven years of trying to get a visa, said through an interpreter that she’s been seeing a therapist for stress, as she and her two children are separated from her husband, who is in Turkey and can’t get an immigration interview. Hussein, an Iraqi in America on...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “I don't know what's going to happen. What is next?” Rana Said, a refugee from Baghdad, told us. Uncertainty looms over those affected by President Donald Trump's pending travel ban. Said sought asylum after war reached Baghdad. Her status is pending. She says she is unable to see her family she left...

Close observers of the 2016 election will remember that, on occasion, President Trump liked to draw attention to his opponent’s security practices as a way of criticism. There was, you may recall, something about an email server. “Hillary Clinton … sent classified information, even during her travels overseas, jeopardizing the...

The United States has been unwavering in its commitment to Israel’s security. We and other leaders have worked together to address the myriad challenges Israel faces, including terrorism, incitement, de-legitimization efforts and regional instability. Previous administrations have consistently enhanced this assistance and...

Congressional Democrats including New Mexico Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich are pushing back against the Trump administration to prevent it from interfering with scientific research and publicly available information. The state’s senators are among 27 co-sponsors of a bill introduced into Congress this week that would amend the 1998...

Washington, D.C. — New Mexico senators read a letter on the senate floor today even though one of their democratic colleagues was silenced for doing the same thing. The letter - written by Coretta Scott King in the 1980's - criticized Jeff Sessions record on voting rights when he was a federal prosecutor. He's a republican senator who...

Senate Democrats want to block President Trump from using personal information collected under an Obama-era program to round up and deport some immigrants.   Eight Democrats — led by Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico — are introducing legislation to prohibit the Trump administration from using information collected under...

New Mexico makes enormous contributions to our nation as the only state that hosts two national security laboratories and the only site in America to permanently dispose of defense-generated transuranic nuclear waste. Sites across the country like Los Alamos here in New Mexico, and Hanford and Oak Ridge in Washington and Tennessee, contributed to...

Addiction to prescription opioid pain relievers and heroin is a growing public health epidemic that’s taking a heartbreaking toll on families and communities across the country. For years, without adequate treatment resources, communities in New Mexico have suffered through some of the highest rates of opioid and heroin addiction and overdose...

TAOS — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., had a strong response to a Utah congressman’s recent suggestion that President-elect Donald Trump should undo national monument designations. “Any admin that tries to reverse 100-year history of #PublicLands that belong to every American, is going to have to do it over my dead body,”...

Regarding Sen. Martin Heinrich’s letter to President Obama requesting that he rescind Monday’s eviction at Standing Rock: This is a very welcome breakthrough. With Heinrich’s leadership, other senators and Congress members will step forward. I also predict that the “arbitrary” date of Dec. 5 will be overturned by the...

Dr. Don Belknap, an Emergency Room physician at Raton’s Miners’ Colfax Medical Center, said that when he first started there five years ago the hospital might see 15 patients on an average day. Last Thursday the hospital saw 31 patients. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., was clearly impressed by that increase and by the hardworking...

One way to diversify and strengthen New Mexico’s economy is to become a hot spot for manufacturing. To compete in the 21st-century economic landscape, we must tap into the extraordinary research and development already being conducted here, support creative homegrown companies and build a skilled workforce that will manufacture the advanced...

FARMINGTON, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich honored two veterans in Farmington. Marine Corps Private First Class Tom Weaver never received a bronze star he earned in Vietnam. Senator Heinrich worked with Weaver’s daughter to get the medal and present it to him. Meanwhile, Marine Corporal Cameron Haley was shot during an ambush...

FARMINGTON —  Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., met with residents in San Juan County today to discuss water testing and defense technology and to honor two local veterans. After touring the Simon Canyon restoration site and meeting with the San Juan Water Commission, Heinrich and several Navajo Nation...