Mark Udall

I think we ought to communicate, collaborate, and compete with China.

I just want to underline my support for working with the Guard, particularly those Guard leaders.

Thank you for your service and willingness to take on even additional responsibility.

I look forward to working with you, particularly on this initiative because this is the key element to bringing our forces home and successfully concluding our operations in Afghanistan.

You reached out to a population that had been previously pretty hostile and worked with them to then turn their focus to al Qaeda.

I have just introduced a bill along with Congressman Giffords, I should say reintroduced a bill that we had put in the hopper in the last Congress, that would provide more direction to DOD.

A broke country is a weak country. Conversely, a solvent country can be a strong country.

I think we can only win in Afghanistan if we can win in Pakistan by reducing those safe havens.

I don't see it as a burden. I see it as a real opportunity.

I do worry about and you know all too well about the safe havens and the sanctuary they provide for the Taliban.

That's exciting news, and count on me to be an advocate for what you're doing.

The Senate, right now, seems to be the one institution here in Washington that's really working on a long-term deficit and debt-reduction plan.

I rise to support the nomination of Bill Martinez. Senator Leahy made the case for his nomination and for him to be confirmed. I have great affection for my friend from Alabama, but I want to set the record clear that Bill Martinez did not…

The Pinnacle site is consistent with the designation as a national park because of its significance in geology and in species, the number of species and kinds of species that are there.

I have spent time in Denali National Park both in the north and south sides and had the great privilege actually to stand atop Denali at one point in my climbing career.

Generally national parks are expected to have more than one unique or special feature, say, as opposed to some areas that are designated as national monuments.

Of course, the people who live on those landscapes and who have lived there for many centuries also have a lot to teach us and an important role to play in those landscapes.

The modifications go a long way toward allowing us to analyze both the financial feasibility, as well as the suitability, of management of any or all of the park.

I know that the whole world of microhydro power is really beginning to open up.

It is really important that we find a solution. I want to take you up on your offer to find a solution. Let us get this fixed.

Would enable the park to better conserve and interpret the history and evolution of conservation stewardship in America.

One of the most important elements that sometimes isn't acknowledged, particularly by critics of Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, ... is that because of those landmark programs our generation has known that our parents will be…

It's an important acknowledgement to make but it's a problem I'd rather have because what we're doing in providing care for all Americans is the smart and the right and the moral thing to do.

If I might, too, respond to the gentleman's initial question, in the Affordable Care Act, there is a provision which was based on a piece of legislation I introduced called the Rural Physicians Pipeline Act.

Part of the idea was driven by a man who represented a very rural state, the state of Idaho