Martin Heinrich

In order to ensure our space architecture is truly responsive and resilient during conflicts that extend into space, the U.S. Air Force will require significant future investment in the personnel that make up our space forces and the…

There is no substitute for a strong economic foundation and smart investments in our children and workers.

It is offensive to use this platform here in Congress to promote the institutionalizing of stereotypes or discrimination.

The topic of social capital is an important one, especially when it is used to build communities up.

I have actually introduced some legislation with Senator Collins to try and increase opportunities, and get out of those silos.

Thank you for bringing that up, because that is one of my other particular interests in this, is the sort of two-generation approach to trying to deal with poverty.

We need to be both strategic and realistic about the policies that we pursue.

Blame is no substitute for a strong economic foundation, and smart investments in our children and our workers.

It is offensive and, frankly, not constructive to blame communities for the challenges that they face today.

I worry, though, that this conversation can be used to blame disadvantaged communities for not already being successful.

I want to thank Senator Warren for bringing up this issue, because it is endemic across the enterprise.

I know we both understand the significance of their impact on national security and the economy.

I think the last thing we should be doing is pulling the rug out from under them by ending the Secure Rural Schools program.

I think it is incumbent upon all of us to make this right.

When the committee receives a covert action finding or a MoN, we need to be confident that the Agency is not exceeding its approved authority.

Congress must take concrete action that focuses our limited resources on investing in working families.

Too many people here in Washington D.C. think that if the stock market is on the rise, the economy is doing just fine.

What our business leaders lack is certainty.

I just want to speak very briefly to Dr. Kane's comment about New Mexico.

Do you think that it would be misguided to prioritize tax cuts over things like job training and early childhood education?

I welcome the opportunity to correct the record on that point.

The United States has long been the global leader in opportunity and innovation.

Russia is using a range of military and nonmilitary tools to, undermine the international system and discredit those in the West who have created it.

The recent Supreme Court decision around Citizens United has created a very different situation in our internal domestic elections

Do we have an overall strategy to meet that threat either in CYBERCOM or as a whole-of-government approach?