Mark Udall

The Broadband Opportunity Council had a lot of great ideas.

I think having common forms and contracts would be extremely helpful.

Senators Jerry Moran and Mark Udall recently sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget outlining areas where improvements can be made.

The 1872 mining law continues to allow mining corporations to take hard rock minerals from public lands without paying any royalties.

What happened at the Gold King Mine is part of a much, much bigger problem.

EPA has accepted responsibility here also.

We're talking about free trade also, right? I mean, this is the intersection of two sets of policies.

How can we now start supplying natural gas to Europe instead of the dependence upon the Putin regime?

The royalties paid by coal companies--and energy development of all kinds on federal lands--provide critical support for local schools, roads and other services that Colorado families count on.

We are grateful to Senators Udall and Barrasso as well as the bipartisan co-sponsors of S. 2440.

General Shelton, with the Air Force technical oversight by DOD and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, did contractor personnel go through a process of demonstrating the ability to build some of the most complex components…

Did ULA, the EELV incumbent contractor, obtain the blueprints and specifications of the RD-180 engine?

General Shelton, what would it take to increase the competitive missions back to up-to-14?

General Shelton, why did the missions available for competition decrease from the planned up-to-14, to up-to-7?

General Shelton, would you please comment on the report that an independent team of DOD experts conducted a study to determine the earliest possible time a new entrant would be close to being certified and capable to launch any or all of…

But would you agree that we need a tested and certified domestic alternative that meets all relevant performance criteria before we halt the use of the current engine?

Do you agree with that estimated cost savings of $4 billion on the current EELV contract?

We want to thank you all. You have been most enlightening.

General Shelton, does the Air Force currently have a need for those satellite launches?

General Shelton, is it fair to say that the second phase, the so-called phase 1A of the Air Force acquisition strategy, that both the new entrant and the incumbent launch provider were equally hurt in the decision to reduce the number of…

General Shelton, would you please comment on the readiness of any new entrant to compete, when will they be certified, and will they have all the capabilities to launch all National Security Space (NSS) payloads?

Have the engines and all the support provided the foreign and domestic contractors met all U.S. Government requirements for this program?

We treat every launch as if it is our very first.

I think you said yes, but I want to make sure I was clear on that.