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Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation praised President Donald Trump’s signing of the Great American Outdoors Act as a victory for conservation and a help for an economy crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The president signed the legislation Tuesday. It will provide $1.9 billion a year for five years to help clear a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a stroke culminating years of work by Democratic and Republican lawmakers, President Donald Trump signed into law Tuesday morning a bill guaranteeing full annual funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. "America’s natural landscapes belong to the American people," the president said in an address...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the National Institute on Aging, has...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Donald Trump’s executive order last week excluding undocumented immigrants from census data could lead to an undercount in New Mexico, members of the state’s congressional delegation said. But the White House said states should not be rewarded for welcoming immigrants who are here illegally. The order...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, joined fellow Democratic committee members in a letter demanding that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provide information to the committee about the role that its Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has played in...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Legislation to prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties for stealing and illegally trafficking tribal cultural inherited property introduced by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was passed by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The...

WASHINGTON - Today, during a markup in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties for stealing and illegally trafficking tribal cultural patrimony was passed unanimously out of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is urging Facebook to end its policy of labeling climate change content as “opinion content,” creating a fact-checking exemption for climate denial. "It is deeply disappointing to see Facebook ignoring dangerous lies and articles that spread disinformation about climate change...

WASHINGTON– U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined 47 senators in introducing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a bipartisan bill to restore the landmark Voting Rights Act, end the scourge of minority voter suppression, and help preserve the legacy of John Lewis – one of America’s greatest...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 High-Impact Allocation Provider Relief...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $1,892,826 in mental health and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ranking Member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, and co-founder of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, voted for the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that supports New Mexico's men and women in...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined a group of 27 Senate Democrats in a letter to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr and Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf demanding answers on the alarming actions of federal law enforcement officers against unarmed...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after the House-passage of the Great American Outdoors Act. The bill passed the Senate in June and after today's House vote of 310 to 107 now heads to the president’s desk to be signed into law. “This historic legislation represents the...

In an unusual move laced with unmistakable tones of anger, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich called for the resignation of controversial Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales on Tuesday, claiming Gonzales was inviting federal law enforcement agents — who he called “the president’s stormtroopers” — to Albuquerque. CBS News...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement calling for the resignation of Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales, III. “Sheriff Gonzales wasn’t representing Bernalillo County when he opposed body cameras. He wasn’t representing Bernalillo County when he opposed efforts for common...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) announced that the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency responsible for AmeriCorps and other...

WASHINGTON – In response to heavily armed, unmarked federal forces in unmarked vehicles grabbing protestors off the streets in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, are helping introduce the bicameral Preventing Authoritarian Policing Tactics on America’s Streets Act. The legislation would block the Trump...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced legislation that extends the coverage of Coronavirus Relief Fund payments allocated under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to tribal governments from December 30, 2020, to December 30, 2022. The CARES Act, signed into...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The extra $600 unemployed New Mexicans are receiving is scheduled to stop at the end of the month. However, lawmakers in Washington D.C. are working on a second stimulus package that could provide more money for unemployment. "Congress has a moral responsibility to address the pain and suffering happening across the nation, in...