U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) announced the introduction of their legislation to form a federal task force to address the widespread problem of catalytic converter theft.
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement ahead of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped access to abortion care for millions of Americans and denied women the freedom to make their own health care decisions.
On June 22, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, and U.S. Representative Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) introduced the FCC Legal Enforcement Act, legislation that would provide the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with litigation enforcement authority for violations contained in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regarding robocalls.
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the Senate Appropriations Committee's bipartisan, unanimous passage of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) bill.
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, welcomes the Senate Appropriations Committee’s bipartisan, unanimous passage of his Fiscal Year 24 (FY24) Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration Appropriations bill.
U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) called on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to acknowledge and examine the unmet needs of New Mexicans as a result of the 2022 wildfire disasters.
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced important progress on his Continental Divide Trail Completion Act after it was featured during a hearing to consider pending legislation in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks today.
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representative Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) in announcing the reintroduction of the Right to Contraception Act, legislation that would protect and strengthen the right to contraception
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and U.S. Representative Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) in announcing the reintroduction of the Right to Contraception Act, legislation that would protect and strengthen the right to contraception.
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to reintroduce the Working Families Tax Relief Act.
Democratic Reps. Teresa Leger Fernandez and Melanie Stansbury voted against a resolution last week to repeal a new Biden administration rule that critics say is “unconstitutional” and “onerous” in the way it regulates the ownership of stabilizing pistol braces.
In an ongoing effort to provide top-notch constituent service, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich's (D-N.M.) staff and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will hold a community information session at the Branigan Memorial Library in Las Cruces at 3:30 p.m. MT on Friday, June 23.
On June 21, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced bipartisan legislation that ensures acequias are able to access the same USDA disaster assistance programs available to other agricultural systems.
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday issued the following statement in observance of Juneteenth, the national, federal holiday commemorating the date in 1865 when federal orders were read by Union Gen. Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas informing enslaved people they were free more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamatio.
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation to protect Americans’ data from being exploited by unfriendly foreign nations and apply tough criminal and civil penalties to prevent employees of foreign corporations from accessing U.S. data from abroad.
New Mexico’s economy delivered exceptionally strong job growth in May and, along with falling unemployment levels, the state is now seeing the highest number of jobs in its history.
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.) announced a total of $10,916,787 in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants to repair the infrastructure at six airports in New Mexico.