press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 7, 2019) – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned top military leaders during a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing on the chain of command’s accountability to provide safe military housing and other building infrastructure to servicemembers and their families. VIDEO: Heinrich Presses...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján introduced a bill to provide relief to communities and businesses impacted by PFAS contamination in groundwater around Air Force bases in New Mexico and across the country. Udall, Heinrich, and...

(U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) meets with New Mexico's United States Youth Senate Program delegates, March 6, 2019.) WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 6, 2019) – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with and congratulated New Mexico’s two student delegates for the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP), Katherine Broten of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 6, 2019) - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced bipartisan legislation to repeal a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as the “Cadillac Tax,” which taxes high-cost health insurance plans and impacts middle-class health benefits. In the 115th Congress, more...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Intelligence Committee members Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., today called on the Director of National Intelligence to declassify a letter sent October 31, 2018, that responded to questions about whether China interfered in the 2016 and 2018 U.S....

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 28, 2019) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on President Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi: “I always welcome diplomacy to lower tensions on the Korean...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 28, 2019) -Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after voting against the confirmation of Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler as the new EPA Administrator: “Americans need a leader at the EPA who will take action on climate change and work to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, joined a group of 14 senators in calling on President Trump to abandon plans to form an internal group within the White House with the task of refuting the clear scientific consensus about the growing threat climate change poses to our...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) – all senators who represent states through which the Southwest Chief route runs – today announced that Amtrak at long last will provide $3 million in...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) called on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to hold a full day of floor debate on climate change. “We respectfully request you and your Republican colleagues join us for a full day of floor debate on the...

Washington, D.C. (Feb. 26, 2019) - During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today on the Department of Defense budget, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned Commander of United States Strategic Command General John Hyten and head of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command General Terrence...

Farmington, N.M. - In an ongoing effort to provide top-notch constituent service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich's (D-N.M.) staff will hold Mobile Office Hours on Friday, March 1st from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments, 106 West Aztec in Gallup. Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding...

Washington, D.C. – Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., introduced legislation today requiring a public report on the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The bill comes in response to the Trump administration’s...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, along with U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Xochitl Torres Small announced five grants totaling $1,050,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) to develop effective strategies that will diversify and...

Roswell, N.M. - In an ongoing effort to provide top-notch constituent service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich's (D-N.M.) staff will hold Mobile Office Hours on Tuesday, February 26, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Matt 25 Hope Center. Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding Social Security benefits, Medicare,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 19, 2019) - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Ranking Member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, announced that Tau Technologies of Albuquerque has been awarded an $8.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to conduct directed energy modeling for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 15, 2019) – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) reintroduced the Buffalo Tract Protection Act to withdraw four parcels of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in southern Sandoval County, including the Buffalo Tract and the Crest of Montezuma, from any mineral development, including...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 15, 2019) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, including Chair Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.), to call on Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to make the mandated reports on foreign election interference in U.S. elections...

Washington, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced that the Fiscal Year 2019 spending package passed by Congress on February 14 includes funding for long-term water quality monitoring of the Animas River in response to the Gold King Mine Spill. “When an EPA...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced that their bipartisan measure to provide an additional $50 million in federal funding to help maintain Amtrak train services along the established, long-distance passenger rail route of the...