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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...

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...

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...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member and former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Economic Committee (JEC), released a statement reacting to a new report from JEC Democrats that finds that New Mexico workers will lose hundreds of dollars in 2026 from the combined impact of President Trump’s tariffs and Republicans’ Big, Bad...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement on the passing of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “Lindsey Graham fought hard for the things he believed in. And while we disagreed on a lot, he was always willing to sit down, hear me out, and work across the aisle when we could, getting things done that...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced that the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, bipartisan legislation he cosponsored to tackle the housing crisis, increase the housing supply, and lower the cost of housing for working families, is now law. The bill became law at midnight today despite President Trump’s continued refusal to...

New Mexico’s congressional delegation had a lot to say last week on the opioid overdose and fentanyl crises gripping the state, notably demanding answers in an unfolding scandal in which federal authorities allowed massive amounts of fentanyl to be sold here. In a Monday letter to Terrance Cole, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ID bill he has been pushing. “I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that a bipartisan resolution he cosponsored designating July 10, 2026, as Journeyman Lineworkers Recognition Day, passed the Senate. This resolution honors the men and women who dedicate their lives to ensure...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Angus King (I-Maine) sent a letter pressing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) failure to meet a deadline to implement key research provisions of the bipartisan Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act. The...