press releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich reintroduced the Central America Reform And Enforcement Act, a major legislative proposal to address the root causes of the Central American migrant crisis. The bill outlines the coordinated regional response needed to effectively manage the endemic violence and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After reports that U.S. Border Patrol has in recent weeks released over 4,000 migrants applying for asylum in the United States in Las Cruces, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today sent a letter with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Xochitl Torres Small, and Deb Haaland, to the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining hearing on S. 1079, the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, a bill he introduced with U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) to...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After reports that U.S. Border Patrol has in recent weeks released more than 4,000 migrants applying for asylum in the United States in Las Cruces, members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are seeking federal funds for humanitarian relief. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich on Tuesday sent a letter with...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, May 15, at 8:30 a.m. ET/ 6:30 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, will be a featured speaker at POLITICO’s live panel discussion, “Reinventing American Energy: Modernizing U.S. Power Infrastructure for a Clean Energy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2019) – After a “sweeping and systemic” disinformation campaign directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to undermine the 2016 elections, and recent warnings from FBI Director Christopher Wray that the United States should be prepared for another attack on the election systems in 2020, U.S. Senator...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2019) – At the urging of U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham will visit New Mexico later this month to discuss ensuring accurate counts for the upcoming 2020 Decennial Census. In February, Udall and Heinrich sent a...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) urged Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to extend the public comment period, which ends today, for the Trump administration’s proposal to build 46 miles of new border wall in southern New Mexico. In a letter to CBP...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 7, 2019) – On the anniversary of the Trump Administration's decision to adopt a policy that ripped apart hundreds of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico Border, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) warns that children continue to be in danger. "It remains unfathomable that the Administration would ever consider...

Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2019)  – Six Senate Intelligence Committee members today requested the National Security Agency (NSA) provide a public update on the status of the NSA’s phone records surveillance program. U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Vice-chair Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Dianne Feinstein...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 7, 2019) –U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) introduced the Defense Small Business Advancement Act, which would reauthorize and improve the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Mentor-Protégé Program (MPP) that expired last year. This program increases participation of small,...

WASHINGTON — On September 28, 2018, the Honorable Judith C. Herrera announced her intention to assume senior status after 15 years of distinguished service on the federal bench. Judge Herrera’s announcement, effective July 1, 2019, will create a vacancy in Albuquerque, N.M., for a U.S. District Judge for the District of New...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2019) – In response to the murderous attacks at the Poway Synagogue in California and the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pennsylvania, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation to ensure that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides state and local law enforcement...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2019) - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) reintroduced legislation to authorize an Energy Technology Maturation Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to facilitate successful commercialization of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 1, 2019) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai requesting in-person technical assistance workshops to promote broadband funding for tribal and rural communities in New Mexico. “As you know, high-speed broadband is key to a thriving...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the passing of former Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher. “When I began my service in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher quickly became one of my biggest role models. I still think about lessons I learned under her visionary...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 30, 2019) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined U.S. Representative Deb Haaland’s (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) Military Housing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act, a comprehensive bill to address a series of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 26, 2019) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the passing of former Congressman and Secretary of the Interior Manuel Luján, Jr. "During his decades of service in the House of Representatives and at the Department of the Interior, Manuel Luján never stopped fighting for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 26, 2019) - Following last week's public release of a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, delivers this week's Weekly Democratic Address. In the address, Heinrich explains why Congress needs to...

SANTA FE, N.M. – On Friday, April 26, from 9 to 9:45 a.m., U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be in Santa Fe to host a discussion on climate change with students at the Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences on the need–as the generation who will have no choice but to deal with the consequences of this...