Mark Udall

Do you believe that opening up all military occupations and specialties to women would help end the sexual assault crisis?

Part of empowering officers with command responsibilities is to hold them accountable for maintaining good order and discipline.

Senator Udall, would you consider making victim's advocates and SARCs competitive assignments selected by senior leaders though a board selection process?

How can the personnel culture be changed so that these are highly sought after and competitive assignments?

I think Congress and this committee have come forward with some ideas to further those tools.

Make no mistake, sexual assault is a national disgrace.

This is truly something that needs immediate attention, and I know that we can solve this.

Every sexual assault committed by an American servicemember represents a fundamental failure of leadership.

Certainly the President has military personnel deployed all over the world today, in probably over 70 to 80 countries, and that authority is not always under AUMF.

If the United States faces an imminent threat to which Congress could not respond in a timely fashion, does the President of the United States have Article II authority to use military force to repel an imminent threat to the safety of…

I think the AUMF as currently structured works very well for us.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for agreeing to hold a hearing on S. 341 which is the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act and several other bills that are on the list that are important to Colorado.

These are important lands that possess critical wildlife habitat, clean water and other scenic values.

I'd like to express my appreciation for the extensive effort that John and his staff made to work with all the stakeholders involved and to develop the original bill in 2009.

Thank you all for being here today and for your testimony.

We should not do that at the expense of the environment.

Your testimony today is very important.

Colorado is a model for its pursuit of true energy security--and energy efficiency advancements are a big part of that effort.

So your overall sense is there is a balance here, and CE's, categorical exclusions, have a real role to play.

We look forward to continuing to move in that direction. We have many, many opportunities in Colorado.

It goes on at great length about how fantastic Colorado's approach is.

Some of them were unattractive and would have channeled the Colorado River and would have had some negative effects.

I am looking forward to working with the chairman and Senator Barrasso to move the bill from our committee to the President's desk.

I think the President's goal of nonproliferation as a start and then ultimately a world that does not face the threat of nuclear weapons are worthy and important.

Thank you for that elaboration.