Mark Udall: “I wanted to just let you know that's a concern of mine and it'll continue to be a concern of mine as we move forward.”

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

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

I think Federal lands, which control so much of your State, are really critical, because those are vast rural areas that have virtually no coverage.

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…