press releases

Our children need nature. To grow up healthy, kids need a clean, beautiful, and accessible outdoors where they can play and discover the amazing world around them. Spending time with family while connecting with nature brings tremendous health and educational benefits to children. Fortunately, New Mexico has numerous spectacular and historically...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement in response to the passing of Jennifer Riordan who died aboard a Southwest Airlines flight: “New Mexico tragically lost one of our very best. Jennifer was a pillar of our community in Albuquerque and will be deeply missed. My wife, Julie, and I are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) applauded the passage of a bipartisan resolution that encourages children to get outdoors by designating May 19 National Kids to Parks Day.  First celebrated by the National Park Trust in 2011, the eighth annual Kids to Parks Day marks the beginning of a summer-long series of events at...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 17, 2018) - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Steve Pearce sent a letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan to express concerns with the temporary suspension of operations at the post office in Pie Town, N.M. and urged the United States Postal Service (USPS) to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján, and Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the following joint statement hailing a new report, the 2017 U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report, that shows the state grew wind power at a faster rate than any other...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Steve Pearce sent a letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan to express concerns with the temporary suspension of operations at the post office in Pie Town, N.M. and urged the United States Postal Service (USPS) to keep a permanent post office open in Pie Town. USPS...

PIE TOWN, N.M. (AP) - Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation are concerned about a decision by the U.S. postmaster general to temporarily suspend operations at a post office in a tiny community along the Continental Divide that is best known for its homemade pies. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Rep. Steve Pearce sent a...

New Mexico added wind power capacity at a faster rate than any other state in 2017, according to a national trade association report. Wind power supplies about 13.5 percent of all energy in the state, enough to power more than 422,000 homes. And with a bevy of wind projects in development, New Mexico is poised to more than double its capacity over...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are asking for the fifth time that CIA Director Mike Pompeo declassify information related to the background of CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, whom the president has indicated he will nominate as director of the...

WASHINGTON — Three Democratic senators are asking the CIA to publicly disclose more information on President Donald Trump's nominee to head the agency as uncertain confirmation proceedings gear up. The public knows little about Gina Haspel, a career intelligence officer who has been tapped by the president to be the next CIA director, because...

A trio of Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are signaling they have seen problematic classified information about CIA director nominee Gina Haspel’s career at the agency. Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Ron Wyden of Oregon made the assertion in a letter sent Friday to CIA...

U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich on Friday sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to express concern with the retaliatory tariffs implemented by the Chinese government on 128 American product lines, including an additional 15-percent tariff on U.S. pecans. The increase was made in response to U.S. tariffs on steel and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement on President Trump’s decision to order a missile attack on Syria: “The United States together with the international community has a responsibility to deter Bashar al-Assad and every regime watching...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s two U.S. senators are concerned that tariffs implemented by the Chinese government on dozens of American product lines, including pecans, could hurt growers in the state. New Mexico is one of the nation’s top pecan-producing states. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich wrote a letter Friday...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to express concern with the retaliatory tariffs implemented by the Chinese government on 128 American product lines, including an additional 15 percent tariff on U.S. pecans, in response to U.S....

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about whether President Donald Trump will try to fire special counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the two men who wield the most power in the Russia investigation. A series of scandals, with the FBI raiding the office of Trump’s personal...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -  On Tuesday, April 17, the Office of U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will host a Service Academy Information Night in Las Cruces at the Mayfield High School Library. Senator Heinrich's staff will be on hand to answer questions and give prospective applicants and their families the opportunity to speak with...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) partnered with the American Library Association (ALA) to host a panel on improving access to high-speed internet in Tribal and rural communities. The discussion featured Tribal librarians and rural telecom experts and focused on how broadband connectivity and telecommunications...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two western senators are proposing to expand access to a $4 billion federal program that has allowed public schools and libraries throughout the U.S. to obtain high-speed internet at affordable rates as one way to close the digital divide that persists across American Indian communities and other rural...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced the Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act of 2018 to improve maternity care for women and newborns. The United States has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world and one of the highest rates of infant mortality. According to the 2017 New Mexico KIDS Count...