press releases

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 8 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will participate in a hearing to examine the opportunities and challenges that exist for advancing and deploying carbon and carbon-dioxide (CO2) utilization...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) introduced the Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation (SOAR) Act, bipartisan legislation to improve the permitting process for outfitters, educational organizations, and community groups to access public lands. Senators Heinrich and Capito are...

WASHINGTON – Today, in his first full hearing as a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)highlighted the need for critical investments in infrastructure, electrification, and climate action in President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan. VIDEO: Heinrich Highlights Need For Investments...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are welcoming an announcement from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) that $397,535 will be heading to New Mexico Community Capital (NMCC) in Albuquerque to support a digital and online skill training program...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed bicameral momentum for a bill he reintroduced last month, the Interregional Transmission Planning Improvement Act of 2021 to help bolster the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) interregional transmission planning process. U.S. Representative Sean Casten (D-Ill.)...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. MT/ 10:30 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will participate in his first full hearing as a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.  Biden cabinet officials will testify on how President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan will make significant...

TAOS — Legislation introduced in Congress by two New Mexico delegates would extend federal support for the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area and continue the conservation of local cultural and historic resources through 2036. Introduced by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, both Democrats, the...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, along with 18 of his Senate colleagues, sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging her recommend that President Biden undo any unlawful attacks on the Antiquities Act. Since 1906, sixteen presidents...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), joined 22 Senate Democrats in a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their support for finally closing the detention facility at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  In the letter, the senators wrote that as a symbol of lawlessness and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) introduced the bipartisan Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Congressional Gold Medal Act to honor the heroic veterans who endured the Bataan Death March during World War II.  The...

WASHINGTON – During a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) urged Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray to provide a public assessment on the threat posed by QAnon, in the United States and abroad. “The Constitution protects the advocacy of all...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natrual Resources Committee, welcomed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Tanya Trujillo for Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the U.S. Department of the Interior. "In New Mexico, we know that water is life. I'm proud to see that...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are welcoming a $1.3 million grant to Rocky Mountain Youth Corps that will accelerate the construction of a new workforce development training facility in Taos, New Mexico. Rocky Mountain Youth...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined his Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution to commemorate the life and legacy of civil rights leader and labor champion César Estrada Chávez. “César Chávez was a fearless leader and deeply committed to improving the lives of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently awarded over $8.5 million in COVID-19 relief grants, in addition to over $2.8 million announced in March, to 28 New Mexico...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Vice Chair of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), participated in a hearing titled “Vaccinations and the Economic Recovery.” If the United States continues its progress on vaccinating Americans against the coronavirus—a recent average of 3 million doses...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 8 a.m. MT/10 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, will participate in the Committee’s annual hearing on worldwide threats. The open hearing will feature testimony from the heads of U.S intelligence agencies on the...

WASHINGTON – As hate crimes and violence targeted against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the U.S. rise, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is calling for swift action to be taken to pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. This legislation would assign a point person at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to expedite the review of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), along with Senate Democratic colleagues, sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing the urgent need to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to peacefully and effectively stem the threat of Iran’s nuclear program. In the...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 14 at 12:30 p.m. MT/ 2:30 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Vice Chair of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), will participate in a hearing titled "Vaccinations and the Economic Recovery," which will explore the role vaccinations and other public health interventions...