U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Vice Chair of the National Service Congressional Caucus and the first AmeriCorps alum to serve in the U.S. Senate, welcomed President Joe Biden’s launch of the American Climate Corps, which will put more than 20,000 young people on skilled trades career pathways in the growing fields of clean energy and climate resilience.

“As the first AmeriCorps alum in the Senate, I have been calling to create a Climate Corps for years,” Heinrich said. “There is a lot of work to do to solve climate change and build our clean energy future—young Americans are eager to be the heroes in this story. We need to invest in providing them the training and...

Congress passed a bill on Sept. 18 that renames the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic for the late Corporal Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura, who died on Nov. 29. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-N.M. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., led the companion bill in the Senate.  S. 475 previously passed the Senate and now goes to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.

"The call of service is one that a select few among us choose to answer,” Leger Fernández said. “Hershey Miyamura chose to answer it twice. He volunteered to serve not only in World War II, but also in the Korean War, where he was...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., John Hoeven, R-N.D., Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., introduced the bipartisan Tribal Connect Act to make it easier for tribes to secure high-speed internet access at Tribal Essential Community-Serving Institutions through the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund Schools and Libraries Program, or E-rate program. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández introduced the companion legislation in the House.

The FCC established the E-rate program in 1996 with the goal to equip schools and libraries with broadband support, so that every child in the U.S. has access to internet through their local schools...

Do you want to work your way from the mailroom to the corner office? You’ve got gumption, kid, so leave it to me. I’ll give you some swell advice that’ll have you drinking gold-leafed martinis quicker than you can say “Scrooge McDuck doing the backstroke in a roomful of golden coins.”

 

First, we need to clear up the common confusion between latter, ladder, and later.

 

A ladder is a thing your leaf butler climbs to clean out your gutters. It’s a tool with horizontal bars called “rungs” extending upward on affixed, parallel, vertical poles. I assume you understand this, so it’s time to move on.

 

Latter and later are a bit more confusing. Not only are the...