press releases

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), announced that their Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025, legislation to strengthen the aerial wildfire suppression fleet and better combat the year-round threat of...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) welcomed President Joe Biden’s nomination of Sarah Davenport for U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.  “Sarah Davenport has built an impressive legal career as a federal prosecutor in New Mexico and strong roots in her home community of Las Cruces,”...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senator 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.) welcomed the announcement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $191,000...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies, is pressing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to immediately rectify mounting delays with the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) applauded Senate passage of his bipartisan Fire Grants and Safety Act, legislation to extend federal programs that help support local fire departments in New Mexico and across the country. The bill would reauthorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Staffing for Adequate Fire and...

RUIDOSO, N.M. – 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 joint statement, announcing that President Joe Biden has approved a Major Disaster Declaration for Lincoln County and the Mescalero...

WASHINGTON — U.S. SenatorMartin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, urgedhis colleagues on the Senate and House Appropriations Committees to address illicit weapons trafficking operations in the Western Hemisphere. “Recently, members of Congress have expressed reasonable concern regarding federal agencies’ efforts to...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New technology that helped the Albuquerque Police Department crack one of its highest-profile gun cases is now spreading statewide. The feds are paying for four new specialty machines that will help track shell casings found at crime scenes. “I think probably the best example of the impact that NIBIN has had, and sort of shell...

WASHINGTON – To close out National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) are leading a bipartisan resolution encouraging support for sexual assault survivors and advocates and highlighting preventative measures to help reduce...

WASHINGTON – In a key hearing before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland about the U.S. Department of Justice’s enforcement of two important provisions that he authored with U.S. Senator Susan Collins...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined a bipartisan group of senators in urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to avoid mass resignations within the wildland firefighter ranks by ensuring the prompt passage of the bipartisan Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection...