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Video here  WASHINGTON – During a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine the Trump administration’s budget request for the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) for Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27), U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the Committee’s Ranking Member, delivered opening remarks, criticizing U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom...

Video here WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, appeared on 535 News with Igor Bobic where he spoke about President Trump’s war on the west — including attacks on public lands, wildland fire response, and skyrocketing gas prices. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich,...

WASHINGTON  – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that a resolution he cosponsored commemorating May 5th, 2026, as a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls passed the U.S. Senate. Last year, Heinrich cosponsored and secured Senate passage of the resolution.  The resolution is led by U.S. Senators...

A dozen Senate Dems ask U.S. Central Command whether American forces have provided support to Israel’s forced displacement of 1,000,000 civilians in Lebanon New Mexico – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and nine Senate Democrats in requesting answers from U.S. Central Command...

SANTA FE, N.M. — At a press conference in front of La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and co-founder of the U.S. Senate Stewardship Caucus, and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Natural...

During the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rev. Andrew Black said he loaded his baby into a pack and hiked with her in the Caja del Rio almost every day. Black’s daughter, now 5, returned to the area Friday to attend a news conference on recently introduced federal legislation that would designate more than 67,000 acres in the Santa Fe National...

Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation on Friday celebrated the recent introduction of legislation to protect a 107,000-acre expanse of the Caja del Rio plateau. The public lands spanning volcanic fields west of Santa Fe have historical, ecological, spiritual and cultural significance to pueblos, land grant communities and other advocacy...

Heinrich: “The Trump administration is making policy choices that are showing up in our costs...We need to push back against these policies — they just don’t make any sense” PHOTOS ALBUQUERQUE — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hosted a roundtable with local small business owners, Roadrunner Food Bank, and Women’s Economic...

Heinrich secured $1 million in FY24 funding to construct 23 housing units for New Mexico families experiencing homelessness PHOTOS ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, joined the grand opening of Saranam’s new ADC Family Campus, which includes 23 housing units that Heinrich...

As costs rise, the economic impact is forcing residents and business owners to adapt. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., hopes to share the stories of affected New Mexicans with lawmakers and the Trump administration in an effort to ease financial burdens and influence policy changes. “Being able to hear these stories helps me push back against...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) joined more than 250 House and Senate Democrats in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court urging them to overturn a Fifth Circuit decision that would...

When tourists see a statue of Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a 19th-century explorer, at a Grand Teton National Park visitor center this spring, a marker beneath it that used to be there will now be missing. It had asked visitors: “How do we acknowledge the good and bad of a figure?” pointing out that Doane’s expedition led to the designation of the first...

WASHINGTON — During a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine the Trump administration’s Budget Request for the Department of the Interior (DOI) Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27), U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the Committee’s Ranking Member, questioned DOI Secretary Doug Burgum on the administration’s staffing cuts at...

Senate Democrats on Thursday unveiled their plan to block future attempts to sell off federal lands via the budget reconciliation process, vowing to prevent a repeat of Republican proposals to dispose of up to 3 million acres of public lands last year. Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Ron Wyden...

WASHINGTON — At a U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to discuss President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) pressed NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams and NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs David Beck on the supply...

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, during a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine the Trump administration’s Budget Request for the Department of the Interior (DOI) Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27), U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the Committee’s Ranking Member, delivered opening remarks, grilling DOI Secretary Doug Burgum for...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus, and Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced the CREATE AI Act, legislation to establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) as shared national research...

On the heels of the US Supreme Court hearing arguments in Monsanto Company v. Durnell, Sens. Martin Heinrich and Cory Booker on Wednesday introduced legislation intended to overturn President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating production of the highly contentious weedkiller at the center of that case. “Since my time serving as a City Council...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced the No Immunity for Glyphosate Act, legislation that aims to protect Americans’ health by ensuring manufactures of glyphosate — the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup — can be held liable under federal and state law should the chemical be proven to...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior,...