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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement after Senate Republicans announced their plans to defy the Senate parliamentarian and force a vote to overturn California’s Clean Energy Air Act Waivers: “If Senate Republicans force a vote on the...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined Democratic Senate colleagues in sending an open letter to the public exposing the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans’ plan to gut Head Start, Meals on Wheels, and other essential social services like those to prevent child abuse and provide special...

The STOP Screwworms would create a facility to curb New World screwworm population growth WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration, joined U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) to introduce...

Heinrich to Hegseth: "I have deep concerns that the Trump Administration is bypassing due process for individuals who either intentionally or unintentionally enter this newly restricted area, including United States citizens who may be stopped and detained by U.S. Army soldiers for trespassing on an unmarked military base” WASHINGTON — Today, U.S....

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, voted no against William Doffermyre’s nomination to be the Department of the Interior (DOI) Solicitor and Catherine Jereza’s nomination to be the Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Electricity. Last week, Heinrich...

Streamlining Conservation Practice Standards Act modernizes the USDA’s process for updating conservation standards. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration, and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate...

Streamlining Conservation Practice Standards Act modernizes the USDA’s process for updating conservation standards. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration, and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to President Trump in advance of the president’s upcoming travel to the Middle East next week, urging him to take an active role in pressing for humanitarian aid and a return to ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas...

VIDEO: Heinrich Questions Interior Department Nominee for Solicitor William Doffermyre WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, questioned the U.S. Department of the Interior Solicitor nominee, William Doffermyre, on the Interior Department’s failure to unfreeze federal...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the core bipartisan group of senators who negotiated and passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), joined U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) to urge the Trump Administration to use its recent designation of Latin American cartels...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, released the following statement reacting to President Trump firing Dr. Carla Hayden from her position as the Librarian of Congress: “President Trump fired our nation’s Librarian, Dr. Carla Hayden, by email at...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, pressed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins on proposed cuts in President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Preliminary Budget Request, which slashes critical...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum slamming DOI’s decision to elevate Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) staffer Tyler Hassen’s role in the agency. The letter comes...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, alongside other top Democrats in Congress with oversight over the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), sent a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright demanding information the Department has thus far failed to provide about...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that a resolution he co-sponsored marking May 5th, 2025 as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls passed the U.S. Senate last night. Albuquerque and Gallup have the highest number of missing and murdered Indigenous women cases in the state, according...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) released the following statement on President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Preliminary BudgetRequest, which proposes slashing critical investments that benefit New Mexico families to fund massive tax cuts...

The Stop Comstock Act would repeal an 1873 law that could be misused to limit abortion access in New Mexico WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) co-sponsored the Stop Comstock Act, legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, an arcane 1873 law that anti-choice extremists have threatened to invoke as a backdoor means to dramatically limit...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today released a Request for Information (RFI) for the American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP), a bipartisan initiative aimed at making advancements in U.S. science ten times faster by 2030. The RFI invites researchers, innovators, businesses, government agencies and...

“Who is actually running the Department: Secretary Lutnick or Elon Musk and DOGE?” Senators ask WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, joined U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and five Senate Democrats in demanding that...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich co-sponsored the Tax Cut for Workers Act, legislation to give thousands of New Mexicans a much-needed tax break. The bill would make permanent the American Rescue Plan Act’s expansions of the Earned IncomeTax Credit (EITC), continuing one of the largest-ever tax cuts for the middle class. The American...