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The CIA is proposing to let senators weighing Gina Haspel's nomination to lead the spy agency view classified material about her record in a secure setting, an offer quickly dismissed as insufficient by Democrats seeking more transparency about Haspel's past. The CIA released a disciplinary memo late last week that absolved Haspel, a longtime...

Photos: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) meets with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. April 24, 2018. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to discuss improving access to high-speed internet in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - During a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing today on the U.S. Air Force budget and priorities, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) advocated for transferring HH-60G aircraft to New Mexico’s Air National Guard “Tacos” and increasing R&D funding at Air Force Research Lab. VIDEO: Heinrich Urges Air Force...

Applied Technology Associates, an Albuquerque-based engineering firm, has been awarded an $11.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force, Sen. Martin Heinrich announced Monday. The contract will be used for a "ground-based, multi-aperture space imaging system." “Applied Technology Associates is a great example of a homegrown...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, welcomed an announcement from the U.S. Air Force that it will award a $11.9 million contract to Albuquerque-based Applied Technology Associates (ATA) for a ground-based, multi-aperture space imaging system. “Applied Technology Associates...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich called on the Trump Administration to halt a proposed regulation that would expand the use and duration of short-term health care plans that would raise premiums for older Americans and harm millions of people living with pre-existing conditions. New Mexico currently offers...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Applied Technology Associates of Albuquerque has won an $11.9 million contract with the Air Force for a ground-based space imaging system, Sen. Martin Heinrich announced Monday. The company specializes in precision measurement, sensing and control technology. It provides services and products primarily for the defense and...

When you visit Portales, it is hard to miss the dozens of historic windmills on display at the Dalley Windmill Museum on the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds. For 30 years, Bill and Alta Dalley went throughout the Great Plains collecting the largest private collection of windmills in the nation. These windmills remind visitors of wind energy’s...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation say the federal government has agreed to provide more than $14 million to help renovate wastewater systems serving two unincorporated communities in Dona Ana County. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich on Friday announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a grant of $8.03 million and approved a loan of $6.2 million, totaling more than $14 million, for two unincorporated colonias in Doña Ana County. The funding will help the Lower Rio Grande Public Water...

We join with the Las Cruces City Council in requesting the federal government to upgrade White Sands National Monument to a national park, and encourage the County Commission to do the same. Such an upgrade would require an act of Congress. The City Council voted unanimously to request that Congress pass the White Sands National Park Establishment...

WASHINGTON — Central Intelligence Agency operatives have long run covert influence campaigns overseas. Now, the agency is mounting an unusually active, not very secret campaign in Washington. The C.I.A. is trying to ensure its deputy director, Gina Haspel, a career spy, is confirmed as its next director. Almost every detail of her life and...

Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat seeking reelection to a second term, just tweeted his support for marijuana legalization. “It’s time to legalize marijuana,” the senator tweeted. The senator’s new policy position comes on April 20 – or 4/20 – which has become known as an unofficial national...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined calls led by all of the currently serving women Senators of both parties for the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders to bring legislation to the Senate floor to reform how Congress handles cases of sexual harassment. On March 28, the women of the Senate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich introduced the Choose Medicare Act to give every individual who is not already eligible for Medicaid or Medicare the opportunity to enroll in Medicare as an individual or every employer to purchase Medicare for their employees. “Every New Mexican and every American should be able...

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M) joined a group of 106 U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives, led by Udall and Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Colo.),...

Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall support a Medicare buy-in bill that would allow individuals and companies to buy into the federally-run health care program, the latest bill to address healthcare introduced by Democrats that has little chance to pass in the Republican-controlled Congress. Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and Chris Murphy,...

Many of us in New Mexico are fortunate to have a national forest right outside our backyard. We rely on these forests for drinking water and firewood, to fill our freezers, and to support our outdoor recreation economy. However, as temperatures heat up and we enter fire season after a particularly dry winter, we are also acutely aware that some of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the Committee will hold an open confirmation hearing on Wednesday, May 9th, 2018, on the nomination of Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence (CIA) Agency Gina...

WASHINGTON – New Mexico’s U.S. senators this week endorsed a bill that could dramatically reshape the U.S. health care system by allowing all Americans to enroll in the Medicare program traditionally designed for use by the elderly. The legislation co-sponsored by Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both New Mexico Democrats, would...