Tom Udall

I rise today to introduce the resolution I just mentioned. I have worked very hard with all of my colleagues... The Senate is broken. In the Congress that just ended, because of rampant and growing obstruction, not a single appropriations…

I wish to echo the comments of Senator Leahy on Ambassador Holbrooke. My sense was, Ambassador Holbrooke was a remarkable diplomat and public servant. I got to see him both when he was in his public position and a private position. He was…

Thank you, Chairman Pryor. And thank you very much for holding this hearing today, and for your leadership in consumer protection.

I believe that the CPSC has a responsibility to ensure that football helmets meet safety standards that address concussion hazards and reflect the state-of-the-art helmet technology.

I think it is very important that we give the agency the budget they need in order to protect consumers and to protect safety.

Thanks to your efforts, and especially the landmark 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, parents can have more confidence, this holiday season, that their children's toys are safe.

But, I'm very concerned, as you are, about the safety of people and the number of concussions.

New Mexico actually has one of the nation's best school sports concussion laws.

I think we've learned increasingly, that those lies can destroy morale and good military order.

This is the 21st century. A vast majority of Americans believe that we ought to repeal what's an increasingly harmful law.

In December 2010 U.S. Senators Tom Udall, Tom Harkin, and Jeff Bingaman requested an independent study from the National Academy of Sciences on whether chimpanzees are necessary as invasive research subjects.

I think has been one of the most productive periods for Native American legal and legislative accomplishments.

If you look over the years, we have had dramatic improvements in self-governance.

I think you should be incredibly proud.

I understand China has more than 6,000 scientists and researchers devoted to rare earth research and development.

I would draw attention for my friend from Idaho to an article yesterday: Pentagon Losing Control of Bombs to China, Neodymium Monopoly.

I think if we lose access to these, it could interrupt the development of clean energy technologies.

I think it is important to note that at this point Molycorp, although there might be others would disagree, appropriately so, really is on the leading edge of this.

I look forward to moving ahead and making this situation one that we can look back on and say, hey, we figured out how to stand on the side of the taxpayers and protect the interests of the landowners in the Crystal Lakes Subdivision as…

That is real money, obviously. I was trying to think of a way to make those surveys less expensive.

I have never flip-flopped either.

This legislation, introduced by our New Mexico senators, Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, would expand the boundaries of the Carson National Forest.

Let us get this fixed. I think this hearing draws needed attention to the dilemma we face and particularly the plight of these landowners.

I have never made any mistakes in my life, Ms. Stevenson.

We need the help of Congress to guarantee that this technology becomes a reality.