press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined 27 other senators to urge the president to limit anonymous political spending in elections by requiring new transparency for previously secret campaign contributions. The senators are pushing the administration to require federal contractors to disclose political...

FARMINGTON — A University of New Mexico student from Crownpoint will witness President Barack Obama deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday evening in Washington, D.C. Carielle Bahe will watch the president's speech from the House chamber gallery, which overlooks the chamber floor. Bahe, the only...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today announced that University of New Mexico (UNM) student Carielle Bahe from the Navajo Nation will be his special guest at President Obama's final State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 12, 2016. Bahe, a junior at UNM studying Secondary Education, grew up in Crownpoint, N.M., and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the following response to today's statement by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson on the final phase of REAL ID implementation: "In December, we convened a meeting with DHS officials...

ALBUQUERQUE, 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 at the Advancing Women's Health Care Under the Affordable Care Act event on Wednesday, January 13, 2015 in Albuquerque. Staff will be on hand to assist residents who have questions regarding...

The Ohkay Owingeh became the 23rd tribe to move further towards tribal self-governance as acting Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Lawrence S. Roberts announced it has the sovereign authority to lease tribal lands. The federally recognized tribe in north-central New Mexico is the latest to be granted this authority consistent with...

SANTA FE, N.M. (Jan. 5, 2016) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo Governor Earl N. Salazar and U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Roberts at a signing ceremony in New Mexico yesterday to formally approve new tribal leasing regulations that give the Pueblo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement today on new executive actions to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer: "We all share the President's goal of reducing gun violence in America. It is our responsibility as leaders to support public safety and put in place commonsense protections...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) encouraged livestock producers in New Mexico who have suffered eligible disaster-related losses from recent winter storms to apply for federal disaster assistance. "Farmers and ranchers play a critical role in our state's economy. I encourage New Mexico families who have suffered financial...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has informed them that the state of New Mexico can still get an extension of the deadline for REAL ID enforcement if Gov. Susana Martinez and...

New Mexico’s first border crossing may finally get the face-lift it has been waiting for. The federal fiscal 2016 appropriations bill signed into law last week includes $85.6 million to build new facilities at the Columbus port of entry, where the current building dates to 1989.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Martin Heinrich announced that they have secured $85.6 million for construction of a new, replacement land port of entry in Columbus, New Mexico. The project will expand the current border crossing facilities to safely and efficiently...

The American people have witnessed bitter partisan fights for the better part of the last decade over how to best solve the problems of rising costs and reduced access to insurance in our nation’s healthcare system. However, our bipartisan proposal to fully repeal the 40 percent excise tax on high-cost employer sponsored health coverage,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Congressman Ben Ray Luján (N.M.-03) released the following statement in response to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) review of the Los Alamos National Security (LANS) contract: “We have been informed of NNSA’s performance...

The U.S. Congress voted on Friday to repeal the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude oil in an energy policy shift sought by Republicans as part of a bipartisan deal that also provided unprecedented tax incentives for wind and solar power. The Senate, on a 65-33 vote, approved lifting the ban and providing five-year extensions of tax breaks to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, the lead Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced that they included a provision in the end-of-year appropriations bill that encourages the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich joined the full Senate in voting 65-33 for a so-called “omnibus” appropriations bill to fund the government through September 2016. The U.S. House of Representatives approved the bill earlier today and it...

CARLSBAD -- Among many policies and provisions in the 2016 spending "Omnibus" bill in Congress is a policy that would lift the ban on exporting oil, according to a news release and national reports. Lifting the ban on exporting oil would repeal restrictions on exports of products such as coal, petroleum products and natural gas. This would...

WASHINGTON, D.C - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation that would authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to search public social media profiles of any foreigner seeking a U.S. visa. “Reviewing the public social media posts of an individual seeking a U.S. visa is just common...

WASHINGTON, D.C - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) worked to secure a two-year delay of a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as the "Cadillac Tax," which would tax high-cost health insurance plans and impact health benefits for thousands of New Mexican workers.  The provision to delay the tax was included in the "omnibus"...