press releases

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released a guide to help small business owners and non-profit leaders access new funding included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that passed the Senate, House and was signed into law by...

More than $1.25 billion to help cover state and local government expenses tied to the COVID-19 outbreak will be coming to New Mexico from the $2 trillion congressional coronavirus response package, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich said last week. Details have yet to be released on how some of the funding will be distributed, the senator said in a...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) helped secure extensive workers relief provisions in the emergency coronavirus response bill, including direct payments to New Mexico families and an emergency four-month expansion of unemployment insurance (UI) worth an additional $600 per week....

New Mexico is one step closer to seeing its share of a massive $2.2 trillion economic stimulus package unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate Wednesday night. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., told reporters on a call Thursday morning he’s fighting for the aid money to arrive in the state as soon as possible to help residents stay afloat as...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are highlighting that the recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act includes major provisions to provide relief to small businesses and non-profits hurt by...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The two U.S. senators from New Mexico say help is on the way.  Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall voted to pass the COVID-19 relief package Wednesday night. Udall says part of the $2 trillion will go to helping New Mexicans including small business owners. The bill also gives Americans, who make less than $75,000 a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today held a teleconference with New Mexico-based reporters to discuss the latest on efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic. On the call, Senator Heinrich discussed the Senate passage of a major, bipartisan emergency COVID-19 response bill that will provide immediate and badly-needed relief...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich voted to pass a major, bipartisan emergency COVID-19 response bill to provide immediate and badly-needed relief to New Mexicans grappling with the coronavirus pandemic. The $2 trillion package includes key provisions to support New Mexico,...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...

WASHINGTON (March 17, 2020) – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Xochitl Torres Small are encouraging small businesses and non-profits needing assistance to consider applying for federal disaster loan assistance after the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued...

WASHINGTON – In the wake of unprecedented economic impacts in New Mexico stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Mexico Congressional Delegation issued the following statement commending utilities and co-ops throughout New Mexico for temporarily halting nonpayment disconnects and late fees and calling on all banks in the state to...

Late last week, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) held a press conference to note the introduction of two powerful pieces of legislation designed to ameliorate multigenerational poverty in New Mexico and the rest of the US, too. The two-generation system links services for parents and children in such a way as to enable success and increase...

WASHINGTON -- Today U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) reintroduced the bipartisan Two-Generation Economic Empowerment Act to increase opportunities for families living in poverty. The bill aligns and links existing systems and funding streams to target both parents and children with support aimed at increasing...

LAS CRUCES – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, on Wednesday hosted about a dozen stakeholders in his Las Cruces field office for an update on the Santa Teresa Port of Entry and the port’s role in trade with Mexico. 2019, they said, was a banner year of port — despite being a year of uncertainty revolving around trade relations with...

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) announced that the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded $2,096,945 to the Elderly Housing Development and Operations Corporation (EHDOC) of Albuquerque. The grant provides capital...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 3, 2020) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, along with 15 Senate colleagues sent a letter to 11 of the largest U.S. banks asking them to update their environmental and climate policies to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in pressing Fannie Mae CEO Hugh Frater and Freddie Mac CEO David Brickman for information on the steps that each of the GSEs are taking to...

WASHINGTON, D.C.– U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after the Senate-passage of H.R. 5430, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Implementation Act: "I am not enthusiastic about this deal, but it is far better than NAFTA. That is why I am supporting it. “I have not previously voted to...

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.), commended findings from a 2019 economic-impact analysis released Wednesday, which found that Sandia National Laboratories is...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 18, 2019) – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Joint Economic Committee, and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced the Measuring Real Income Growth Act of 2019, which would require the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to report how economic growth is distributed across...