press releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) led a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the agency to conduct Tribal...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) welcomed the U.S. Department of Justice disbursing over $5 million of federal resources the lawmakers secured to support law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and courts, survivor services, community safety,...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed President Joe Biden’s FY24 supplemental funding request that includes substantial investments in New Mexicans’ health and safety by strengthening border security, repairing and expediting the nation’s immigration process, and combatting the flow of...

WASHINGTON– U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the Commission to enforce its existing regulations regarding consent for receiving telemarketing calls (robocalls). This letter was signed by U.S. Senators Chris Van...

BELÉN, N.M. — Nearly a year after the landmark Inflation Reduction Act was enacted into law, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed President Joe Biden to Arcosa Wind Towers in Belén, New Mexico to highlight how investments in the new law are positioning New Mexico to lead an American-made clean energy future while creating...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Upon his arrival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) hand delivered a letter to President Joe Biden urging his Administration to prioritize additional investments and forward-looking missions at Cannon Air Force Base (CAFB) in Clovis, N.M. The letter was signed by...

HIGH ROLLS, N.M.– In an ongoing effort to provide top-notch constituent service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich's (D-N.M.) staff will hold in-person Mobile Office Hours in Otero County at 11:00 a.m. MT on Friday, August 11.   Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding Social Security benefits,...

SANTA FE – 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 $1,524,625 in federal funding for the Santa Fe Recovery Center, Inc. from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to combat the opioid epidemic and substance abuse in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) along with Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) in leading a bicameral group of colleagues to call on...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) were joined by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in sending a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) cosponsored the bicameral Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act. The legislation, led by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), would require online and other sellers of gun-making kits to comply with federal firearm safety...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández, and Clovis Mayor Mike Morris released the following statement in response to the U.S. Air Force’s announced decision to relocate seven MC-130J aircraft and around 300 to 350 service members, designated as...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, and Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Co-Chair of the Senate AI Caucus, introduced the Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with Artificial Intelligence Act of 2023 (CREATE...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement applauding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) adoption of a final rule that aims to accelerate the transition to clean energy by unclogging interconnection queues and making the energy grid more resilient and reliable.   The...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the bipartisan vote to pass the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24). Senator Heinrich secured key provisions to support New Mexico’s service members, military installations, national labs, and job-creating initiatives...

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the Senate Appropriations Committee’s bipartisan passage of the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Defense Appropriations bill. This comes after the committee advanced the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill last month. Next, all Appropriations bills will be...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the Senate Appropriations Committee’s bipartisan passage of the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, and the Homeland Security...

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 U.S. Department of Energy’s announced guidance for State and Territorial Energy Offices on the implementation of the Home Energy...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Forest Service’s report confirming the cause of the Cerro Pelado Fire on the Santa Fe National Forest in spring of 2022. “New Mexico suffered enormous...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and over a dozen of his Senate colleagues, along with U.S. Representative Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), to introduce the Convenient Contraception Act, legislation that would improve access to contraceptive products, including over-the-counter...