press releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) are welcoming the U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement of a $1.5 million award from the Infrastructure Law that will help working families in Doña Ana County...

Heinrich provided keynote remarks at community celebration in Silver City over the weekend, passed resolution in the Senate recognizing historic anniversary of the world’s first designated and protected wilderness SILVER CITY, N.M. – Today marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Forest Service designating the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich announced that his Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act has been introduced in the House by U.S. Representative Lucy McBath (D-Ga.). The GOSAFE Act, originally introduced by Heinrich in November, is a commonsense proposal designed to protect communities from gun violence while...

WASHINGTON — 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.) are welcoming $9,502,108 from the White House’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program to provide New Mexico’s law enforcement agencies new...

TAOS, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is welcoming the federal acquisition of 3,700 acres of land adjacent to the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in Taos County, N.M. Championed by Heinrich, the acquisition was announced by...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) are welcoming $6.9 million in Infrastructure Law funding to help Albuquerque Public Schools replace older, diesel school buses with 20 new electric school buses.   “Electrifying school...

GALLUP– U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich(D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) honored Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura by renaming the VA clinic in Gallup, New Mexico, for the late Staff Sergeant Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, who died on November 29, 2022, and earned the Medal of Honor for his service in World War II and the Korean...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the co-founder and co-chair of the Electrification Caucus, is welcoming the White House’s announcement of a Federal-State Initiative to Bolster America’s Power Grid to accelerate improvements to the electric transmission and...

Upgrades made possible through $15 million Heinrich secured in 2022 ALBUQUERQUE - In an op-ed published in the Albuquerque Journal, Col. Mike Power, Kirtland Air Force Base Installation Commander, highlighted the importance of newly completed upgrades at the Cibola National Forest Air Tanker Base to help the U.S. Forest Service fight wildfires in...

WASHINGTON – Today, during a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) pressed NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on NASA-caused damage to New Mexico’s groundwater at the White Sands Test...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement after Republicans once again blocked the Senate from even beginning debate on bipartisan border security legislation: “For years, my Republican colleagues have insisted that the only real long-term solution to secure our border was for Congress to pass legislation....

VIDEO: Heinrich questions Secretary Granholm at Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) WASHINGTON – Yesterday, during a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Department of...

WASHINGTON — 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.) are welcoming $4,588,132 to increase access to healthy foods at Roadrunner Food Bank, support student mental health at Tribal schools, assist with computer...

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich took the above photo of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks on Saturday, May 18, 2024. LAS CRUCES — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement in recognition of the 10-year anniversary of the designation of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. “On the ten-year anniversary of...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and over 130 lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel, applauding the successful pilot of the Direct File program, and urging them to make it permanent and expand its...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) introduced bipartisan legislation with U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) to support education in rural communities by allowing teachers on a J-1 visa to waive their two-year return home requirement and work up to five years in the U.S., if they enter into a contract with their employing...

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M), a member of the National Parks Subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, applauded the Senate’s passage of his bipartisan resolution designating May 18, 2024, as National Kids to Parks Day to empower young New Mexicans and their families to get outdoors and enjoy healthy...

WASHINGTON – This week, during a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) asked Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo about how the CHIPS and Science Act is revitalizing American semiconductor manufacturing, including at Intel’s facility in Rio Rancho, N.M.;...

WASHINGTON – Today, during a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) pressed U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore on the inadequacy of housing for wildland firefighters, the need to complete fencing in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D- N.M.) joined Senate colleagues to urge President Biden to use executive authority to lower food prices for families in New Mexico and across the country. Americans are facing sky-high food prices, caused by excessive price gouging by food and grocery giants. A small group of players dominate those...