WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) applauded the passage of the House companion to their legislation, the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The legislation would make it easier for "Good Samaritans," such as state agencies, local governments, nonprofits, and other groups, to clean up and improve   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: In an interview this morning with Jose Diaz-Balarton MSNBC, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC),applauded the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates, highlighting how it will bring overdue relief for working people shouldering the burden of inflation and high costs. Heinrich, who has been calling on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Chair of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) introduced a bicameral resolution expressing concern about Spanish-language disinformation and misinformation across Latin America and the Caribbean and how it affects communi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) led a letter signed by U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to 11 of the largest and most popular social media and encrypted chat companies in the U.S. calling for increased resources toward combatting 2024 U.S. election administration and certification disinformation. "We are deeply concerned th  more