Mark Udall: “This is a very important site. We want to take the steps necessary to encourage more people to be able to visit it…”

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.

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.

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

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