Then it is transparent, then if you as a Senator on the Klamath Basin want to do something, you can go to that Senator--whoever it is--and say: I have an issue with my State. Can we work together to try to work it out? Right now the problem we have is that some Senator is putting on a secret hold and we do not know who it is and we do not have the ability to clear that away. This is a good, solid proposal.
Share & report
More from Tom Udall
Mr. President, I rise to discuss Congress's ongoing failure to assert our constitutional war powers. This failure is the root cause of two pressing concerns that we currently face: first, the seemingly endless U.S. involvement in Middle…
Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the work of Mr. Faisal Amin, who has been serving for the past 4 months as a detailee on the staff of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies…
Mr. President, I am a strong supporter of the AFGHAN Service Act, which I introduced with Senator Paul. It has been nearly 19 years since the United States entered this war in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, and we have had several…
Mr. President, I pay tribute today to Joe Vandever, Sr., who was one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers. Joe was born February 5, 1923, into the Red Running Into the Water People clan, born for Two Who Came to the Water clan. He…
Other voices in this conversation
