We look forward to working on a bipartisan bill that will speed infrastructure development, lower energy costs, and create good-paying jobs.
Work on a bipartisan bill to speed infrastructure development, lower energy costs, and create good-paying jobs through permitting reform.
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Evidence
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Heinrich’s 2024 campaign ad says he is fighting “to lower costs for energy” and “to create good-paying manufacturing jobs right here in our state.”
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee reported out the Energy Permitting Reform Act by a bipartisan vote of 15-4, and the committee said the legislation would boost American energy and mineral production and lower costs for American families.
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Heinrich said after voting to advance the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 that the bill included provisions he had championed and would remove obstacles that delayed clean energy projects; the statement said, "We look forward to working on a bipartisan bill that will speed infrastructure development, lower energy costs, and create good-paying jobs."
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GovInfo records the reported-in-Senate version of the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, describing it as a bill "to reform leasing, permitting, and judicial review for certain energy and minerals projects, and for other purposes." The record shows it was reported in the Senate but does not show enactment as law.
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Heinrich and Whitehouse said, "We look forward to working on a bipartisan bill that will speed infrastructure development, lower energy costs, and create good-paying jobs," while announcing they had reopened negotiations on permitting reform.
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This is just being used as a pretext to scare people to say, we've got to get in those areas, which is about industry. It's not about wildlife, and it's not about fire suppression, and it's not about people, frankly." — Martin Heinrich (quote in NPR report)
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“We look forward to working on a bipartisan bill that will speed infrastructure development, lower energy costs, and create good-paying jobs.”
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Heinrich's office reported that EPA issued the first permit under a pilot program established by bipartisan Good Samaritan legislation Heinrich authored and championed with Sen. Jim Risch. The release says the permit lets Trout Unlimited move forward with the Bodie Mine Project and that the law created a new permitting pathway to remove legal barriers to cleanup projects.
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Democratic release says Heinrich introduced the GRID Savings Act to protect customers from grid-upgrade costs and encourage transmission investment. It also recaps that Heinrich voted in July 2024 to advance the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 and that the bill incorporated several Heinrich-backed provisions, including transmission-planning, FASTER Act, and bipartisan geothermal provisions.
Assessments
The promise was framed as working on a bipartisan permitting-reform bill, not necessarily securing final enactment of the broad Energy Permitting Reform Act. During the same Senate term, Heinrich publicly reopened bipartisan negotiations with Whitehouse using language matching the claim, voted to advance the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 out of committee, and had Heinrich-backed provisions included in that effort. Later same-term evidence also shows continued energy-infrastructure and cost legislation plus a narrower enacted permitting pathway under his Good Samaritan mine-cleanup law. The broad permitting package was not fully enacted, but the stated commitment to work on such a bipartisan bill was fulfilled.
Heinrich materially advanced bipartisan permitting-reform legislation during his Senate term: he publicly championed and voted to advance the Energy Permitting Reform Act (S.4753), the Energy & Natural Resources Committee reported the bipartisan bill out by roll call, and he issued press statements (including a March 5, 2026 joint statement with Sen. Whitehouse) describing active bipartisan negotiations to speed infrastructure, lower energy costs, and create jobs. The promise was to "work on" such a bipartisan permitting-reform bill — which he did, even though the legislation had not become law by the available records.
The promise was framed as working on a bipartisan permitting-reform bill, not necessarily securing final enactment. During the relevant Senate term, Heinrich publicly participated in and supported bipartisan permitting reform negotiations, welcomed committee passage of the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, and identified provisions he had championed. The bill advanced out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee but was not enacted, so this satisfies the specific promise to work on and materially advance such a bill, though not a broader enacted-policy outcome.