Mark Udall: “Full funding in fiscal year 2015 would send a strong signal about the commitment to the critical work Naval Reactors is…”

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

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.

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