WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Today, the Senate passed supplemental appropriations legislation, based on a bipartisan bill cosponsored by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), that will protect veterans' earned benefits and ensure the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is able to continue to pay disability compensation, surviving spouses and dependent compensation, pension, and education benefits to veterans. With more vetera  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Legislation that would make it easier to clean up abandoned mines is one step closer to the president's desk. The Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico, and Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, cleared the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week. The legislation received unanimous suppo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced three Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) grants he secured totaling $5,416,000 to strengthen maternal and newborn care, improving outcomes for mothers and babies in rural New Mexico, and to expand mental health care and substance use disorder treatment in Gallup and Carlsbad. Heinrich secured these thre  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Bill extends the wildly successful Every Kid Outdoors Program that Heinrich helped to establish in 2019 to provide all American fourth graders and their families free national park access Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.) introduced their bipartisan Every Kid Outdoors Extension Act to provide free a  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, applauded the Senate passage of a bipartisan resolution recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month which is celebrated from September 15 through October 15. Led by U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), the Senate passed the resolution on Wednesday. "During Hispanic  more