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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with local Indigenous tribes and pueblos, is urging Republican senators to restrain online gambling apps, saying the unregulated platforms pose an “existential threat” to tribal gaming rights and sovereignty. Heinrich on Friday sent a letter to Republican chairmen of two U.S. Senate committees that are...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demanding answers about the Department of the Interior’s...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Grid Connection and Congestion Management Act, which would require grid operators to establish a fast-track process for connecting new energy projects to the electric grid, reducing delays and easing...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) in sending...

Trump actions will kill more than 30,000 jobs and raise energy costs.  WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), and Angus King (I-Maine) in launching an...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement reacting to President Trump’s Oval Office address where the president attacked American elections and set the groundwork for denying the results of the 2026 midterm elections, instead of addressing his role in starting a costly war with Iran, causing higher gas...

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.) released the following statement in response to the news that the Trump administration is proposing to fully revoke a 20-year mineral withdrawal that has...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) led New Mexico and Texas congressional Democrats in introducing the Protecting Home-Based Care for Rural Veterans Act, legislation to reverse the Trump administration’s cuts to reimbursement rates for essential homecare services for veterans...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández on Thursday introduced legislation that would reverse rate cuts for veterans’ home healthcare services and require congressional notification of any future reductions. Between 2025 and 2026, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs slashed reimbursement rates for home health aide...

WASHINGTON – Today, during a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee Hearing on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining to receive testimony on pending legislation, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Committee, spotlighted his Caja del Rio Protection Act, emphasizing the plateau’s cultural significance in New...

VIDEO HERE WASHINGTON — This evening, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) appeared on MSNOW’s The Weeknight with Symone Sanders, Michael Steele, and Luke Russert where he reacted to Jay Clayton’s nomination hearing to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI) — touching on Clayton’s refusal to answer whether he was aware of Tulsi Gabbard’s...

VIDEO HERE WASHINGTON — At a U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) pressed Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and nominee to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) refusal to provide evidence related to Jeffrey...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on the U.S. Forest Service's (USFS) proposal to authorize an unprecedented emergency salvage logging project spanning more than five million acres across six national forests in Idaho...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today introduced legislation to expedite scientific research on diseases through specimen collection. This is the first piece of legislation introduced using feedback from Rounds and Heinrich’s American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP), a national initiative to support...

SANTA FE — New Mexico’s push to obtain unredacted records related to Jeffrey Epstein took center stage on Capital Hill on Wednesday. During a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., pushed director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton to commit to providing information requested by New Mexico...

The Department of Energy would create a program to collect organisms from “unique locations” and form an artificial intelligence-led database to advance research on curing cancer and other diseases under new legislation from Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). The Homestake AI Act, led by Rounds and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), co-chairs of the Senate AI...

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) convened a roundtable with labor leaders to discuss the future of America's energy workforce and the policies needed to create good-paying union jobs, strengthen domestic...

Democrats are eager to accelerate clean energy infrastructure development and the jobs that come along with it — and a bipartisan deal on permitting reform is a big piece of that puzzle. But, they’re warning, if those talks fall apart, the blame is squarely on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. Democrats said Tuesday that communications with the...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) reintroduced his Pre-Apprenticeships To Hardhats (PATH) Act, legislation to strengthen the pipeline for careers in New Mexico and nationwide, address workforce shortages, and grow the economy through quality pre-apprenticeship programs. Pre-apprenticeship programs are a proven way to build the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement in response to President Trump stripping protections from the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments: “Today’s executive action is another chapter in this...