Tom Udall

MADD strongly urges this committee to work with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Senator Tom Udall and Senator Bob Corker have introduced bipartisan legislation, the ROADS SAFE Act.

What is critical to understand is how we can help encourage these daily changes across the Nation every day so that lives will be saved.

Highway safety is critical; and, while great steps have been made since the enactment of SAFETEA, it's important for us to continue to evaluate the safety programs for effectiveness.

That's why I've introduced the ROADS SAFE legislation that was incorporated into the Motor Vehicle Safety Act.

Combating drunk driving has been a focus of mine for nearly 20 years, and it will stay a focus until it's eliminated.

Some describe this effort as a Manhattan Project to end drunk driving.

We have a responsibility to protect our citizens on the road.

I have to preside over the Senate, but I am leaving you in the hands of two very capable Senators that I know are very concerned about this issue.

If we do not, our children and our grandchildren will continue to be guinea pigs in an uncontrolled experiment testing the impacts of thousands of industrial chemicals on the human body.

Science should drive decisionmaking and that we should take precautions when we expose children to potentially toxic chemicals.

Federal toxic chemical regulation is broken and needs to be addressed.

Thank you, Chairman Klobuchar, for calling this hearing into an issue that is of great concern to families in New Mexico and around the country.

The success of Indian gaming is a testament to the resilience and determination of Indian tribes.

This is a very important hearing.

We must ensure that we focus on the root of the problem, the toxic chemicals themselves.

We need to find better ways.

And thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this hearing and being such an advocate for our oceans.

We thank you and Senator Udall for your willingness to take a few minutes to understand the benefits St. Cloud zeolite could bring to the environmental rehabilitation efforts underway in the wake of the BP--Deepwater Horizon calamity.

We need to find a way... to take these ideas and take them early on and get them into the process, so that we can have an effective cleanup.

I wanted to ask Chairman Wismer. You know, your county has interacted with Bandelier National Monument...

We want to work with you on those issues in this legislation.

You have been an excellent partner. I think we have worked on this for many, many years.

Thank you, Governor Dasheno.

Do you believe that the bill as written gives adequate protection for continued hunting and angling in the Valles Caldera under the management of the Park Service?