Martin Heinrich
Democrat · NM · U.S. Senate
Bio
Martin Trevor Heinrich is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Mexico, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Heinrich served as the U.S. representative from New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 2009 to 2013. He and fellow senator Ben Ray Luján are the co-deans of New Mexico's congressional delegations.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.7 years
- Chambers
- House 4y, Senate 13.7y
- First took office
- 2009 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 31 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 54
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Albuquerque, NM · 505-346-6601
- Farmington, NM · 505-325-5030
- Roswell, NM · 575-622-7113
- Las Cruces, NM · 575-523-6561
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $336k – $890k
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- −$164k – $640k
- Since 2018
- +$361k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Martin Heinrich's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Heinrich's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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Common Dreams · September 30, 2026
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Raw Story · September 21, 2026
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Yahoo Entertainment · September 18, 2026
King Demands Education Department Restore Critical Mental Health Funding That Addresses Youth Needs<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.</strong> — U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) is urging the Department of Education to restore funding for critical school-based mental health programs and halt efforts to terminate grants that help schools hire and retain counselors, …
Senate.gov · September 18, 2026
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