{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/heinrich-joins-roundtable-with-new-mexico-voices-for-children-and-wk-kellogg-foundation-tours-presbyterian-kaseman-hospitals-food-pharmacy-speaks-at-array-technologies-new-facility-ribbon-cutting-urges-new-mexicans-to-raise-their-voices-for-roadless-rule", "Heinrich Joins Roundtable with New Mexico Voices for Children and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Tours Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital\u2019s Food Pharmacy, Speaks at ARRAY Technologies\u2019 New Facility Ribbon Cutting, Urges New Mexicans to Raise Their Voices for Roadless Rule", "2026-09-11", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "NM", "Martin Heinrich", "H001046", "www.heinrich.senate.gov", "heinrich", "https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, participated in an event in Albuquerque on improving the well-being of children and families, toured Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital\u2019s food pharmacy, joined a ribbon-cutting ceremony for ARRAY Technologies\u2019 solar manufacturing facility, and spoke in support of protecting the Roadless Rule at a New Mexico Wild community event.\n\nHeinrich began the day participating in a roundtable event hosted in partnership with New Mexico Voices for Children and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, along with representatives from the UNM School of Medicine, Changing Women Initiative, Future Focused Education, and Breath of My Heart, to discuss New Mexico Voices for Children\u2019s Roadmap Report and policy solutions to improve the well-being of children and families in New Mexico.\n\nU.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joins a roundtable to discuss policy solutions to improve the well-being of children and families in New Mexico, September 9, 2026.\n\n\u201cI got involved early in the conversation around universal pre-K and early childhood education in New Mexico because we need to invest in our greatest asset: the next generation,\u201d said Heinrich, a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. \u201cRight now, we\u2019re seeing the Trump administration walk away from investing in our children and families. We need to be thinking about the future. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve long championed legislation and funded programs that give our children a strong start and ensure they have access to high-quality care. We\u2019ve done some incredible things here in New Mexico over the last few years, but we\u2019re just getting started. I\u2019ll keep pushing to make sure every child in our state has the opportunity to succeed.\u201d\n\nNotably, in 2014, Heinrich was the first member of the New Mexico Congressional Delegation to publicly support unlocking investments from the state\u2019s Land Grant Permanent Fund to sustainably support early childhood education. After the New Mexico Legislature and voters in the state passed the necessary state constitutional amendment to unlock these investments, Heinrich successfully led the effort to secure Congressional authorization of the amendment through his New Mexico Education Enhancement Act, which passed in the Omnibus Appropriations Agreement for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23).\n\nFor more information on the efforts Heinrich has championed to bolster childhood education in New Mexico, click here.\n\nFollowing the roundtable event, Heinrich toured Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital\u2019s food pharmacy, hearing directly from families who receive the program\u2019s food distribution services about the program\u2019s impact.\n\nU.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) tours Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital\u2019s food pharmacy, September 9, 2026.\n\nWhile touring the food pharmacy, Heinrich highlighted the need to build on programs like Presbyterian\u2019s that are making nutritious food more accessible to New Mexico families.\n\n\u201cIt's time to rebuild our food system in a different way that really serves people's health,\u201d said Heinrich. \u201cWe need to thoughtfully look at some of our food deserts in this state and find ways to make fruits and vegetables accessible in those places, while also supporting our local farmers. Presbyterian\u2019s food pharmacy program proves how valuable a fresh fruit and vegetable kind of diet is for New Mexicans, and we should learn from that.\u201d\n\nLast month, Heinrich cosponsored the Accountable Produce is Medicine Act of 2026, which would require the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test a new bundled-payment model that integrates Food is Medicine services into chronic disease care. Participating programs would provide eligible Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP patients with health assessments, care coordination, telehealth and remote monitoring, nutrition counseling, lifestyle support, and healthy, nutrient-dense foods.\n\nIn December of 2024, Heinrich introduced the FOOD for Health Act, which aimed to reduce nutrition-related chronic diseases and address food insecurity by supporting the production of nutritious food.\n\nIn 2018, Heinrich voted in favor of the 2018 Farm Bill, which established the first federal Produce Prescription Program under the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) program, which provides federal grants to increase the purchase and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables among low-income households.\n\nHeinrich also joined a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open ARRAY Technologies\u2019 Westside Albuquerque facility. The new $50 million facility will triple ARRAY\u2019s solar tracker manufacturing capacity in New Mexico \u2013 shortening energy delivery times, lowering costs for consumers, and creating over 300 good-paying jobs in New Mexico.\n\nU.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joins a ribbon-cutting ceremony for ARRAY Technologies\u2019 Solar manufacturing facility, September 9, 2026.\n\n\u201cArray Technologies\u2019 new $50 million facility on Albuquerque\u2019s West Side is a testament to the strength of our workforce and New Mexico\u2019s leadership in unlocking our country\u2019s clean energy future,\u201d said Heinrich, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. \u201cThis new facility will employ more than 300 New Mexicans and create high-skilled jobs, from welders to tooling and die technicians. It\u2019s proof that when we invest in American-made energy, we\u2019re not just building the technologies that will power our future \u2014 we\u2019re creating good-paying jobs, strengthening local economies, and helping lower electricity costs for families and small businesses. And this is just the beginning.\u201d\n\nHeinrich has long supported ARRAY Technologies and investments that have spurred solar development.\n\nIn April 2022, Heinrich met with New Mexico solar industry leaders, including ARRAY Technologies, to hear how a solar tariff petition filed with the Department of Commerce would severely harm the state\u2019s solar industry and the hard-working New Mexicans who work in the industry, and later led the charge to prevent the Biden administration from moving forward with the tariffs.\n\nIn June 2022, Heinrich delivered keynote remarks at the American Solar Energy Society\u2019s 51st Annual National Solar Conference, SOLAR 2022, hosted at the University of New Mexico, highlighting the importance of accelerating the deployment of residential and utility-scale solar across New Mexico and the nation.\n\nIn July 2022, Heinrich passed the CHIPS and Science Act, which invested in domestic solar manufacturing through tax credits and semiconductor funding.\n\nIn August 2022, Heinrich helped pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which included the 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit, to subsidize the production of five types of goods: solar energy components, wind energy components, battery components, inverters, and critical minerals.\n\nIn April 2024, Heinrich delivered keynote remarks during New Mexico\u2019s first Business-to-Business Electrify New Mexico event, hosted by the Renewable Energy Industries Association of New Mexico, celebrating ARRAY Technologies\u2019 expansion and growth in the state.\n\nIn April 2024, Heinrich welcomed U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm to New Mexico to highlight how investments from the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act created a manufacturing boom and helped position New Mexico as a national leader in an American-made clean energy future, touring ARRAY Technologies\u2019 manufacturing plant in NE Albuquerque.\n\nIn June 2024, Heinrich, as Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC), hosted a hearing on how investments in clean energy have helped create an economic boom, uplifting ARRAY Technologies for expanding in New Mexico.\n\nHeinrich ended the day speaking in support of the Roadless Rule at a New Mexico Wild community event, emphasizing the importance of fighting to preserve the Roadless Rule. The public now has until October 6 to submit comments on the Trump administration\u2019s proposed plan to rescind the Roadless Rule.\n\nU.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, speaks at New Mexico Wild\u2019s event on protecting the Roadless Rule, September 9, 2026.\n\n\u201cPublic input makes for better governance. It gets all the facts on the table. It gets people\u2019s opinions on the table, and generally the outcome benefits from that,\u201d said Heinrich, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. \"We saw that during the public process that led to the Roadless Rule in the late 1990s, when there were tons of people in those hearings \u2014 and now, after more than 20 years of management under the Roadless Rule, the comments are 99 percent supportive. And yet, this Forest Service and this administration doesn\u2019t have the decency to hold a single public hearing. Public process is at the heart of good democracy and good governance, and we won\u2019t accept anything less than that.\u201d\n\nLast month, Heinrich released a statement reacting to the Trump administration\u2019s announcement that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has filed a proposed rule to rescind the Roadless Rule, calling roadless areas irreplaceable and criticizing the administration for its attack on public lands.\n\nEarlier this summer, Heinrich hosted a press conference on Senate Republicans\u2019 efforts to repeal the Roadless Rule and spoke out against the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to rescind the Roadless Rule.\n\nAdditionally, Heinrich wrote an op-ed in Outside News about how the Roadless Rule helps conserve our public lands and prevent wildfires \u2013 and how it represents years of input from Americans who have made it clear they want the Roadless Rule to stay in place.\n\nIn May, Heinrich and the N.M. Congressional Delegation urged New Mexicans to voice their opposition to the looming Roadless Rule repeal.\n\nIn February, Heinrich attended the \u201cCamo at the Capitol Day\u201d rally in the Roundhouse where he stated, \u201cIt makes me incredibly proud to be a New Mexican. They\u2019ll never take our public lands from our public hands.\u201d\n\nLast September, Heinrich and the N.M. Congressional Delegation sent a letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins requesting that New Mexico be excluded from the Trump administration\u2019s proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule.\n\nDuring a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee hearing to examine pending legislation, Heinrich brought attention to the Trump administration\u2019s refusal to take public opinion into account prior to repealing the Roadless Rule.\n\nIn June 2025, Heinrich released a statement slamming USDA Secretary Rollins\u2019 efforts to rescind the Roadless Rule.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-12T09:02:30Z", "2026-09-12T09:03:27Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/heinrich-joins-roundtable-with-new-mexico-voices-for-children-and-wk-kellogg-foundation-tours-presbyterian-kaseman-hospitals-food-pharmacy-speaks-at-array-technologies-new-facility-ribbon-cutting-urges-new-mexicans-to-raise-their-voices-for-roadless-rule"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7678351141512394, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}