Tom Udall

We need to have a multi-year plan.

Contract Support Costs are vital to bolstering sovereignty while ensuring that the federal government is fulfilling its trust responsibility.

Thank you, Chairman Rockefeller, for again focusing this committee's attention on cyber security.

I just want to remind them that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has done two of the four key models used by the U.S. climate program.

Congress has specifically stated that wilderness can not be used to reduce animal unit months.

Your questions were to the point and fair.

I think it's amazing and truly gratifying to see our democratic processes work, because I think this is what this country's about.

I just wanted to give any of you an opportunity to comment on things you might have heard that you either agree or disagree with.

I am pleased to note that, with passage of S. 1689, families many generations from now will have that same opportunity--to enjoy a small slice of solitude while just outside of the bustling Las Cruces metropolitan area.

The Dona Ana County Board of Commissioners has high regard for our area mountains, and we have been carefully watching the process by which wilderness legislation is being crafted.

Senator Udall and his staff also played a very positive role in finalizing the legislation.

We have to look at it comprehensively and study it.

I would beg to disagree. But please go ahead, but there's a huge difference in the law between a discretionary act and an act where you say 'shall' where you instruct an agency to do something.

We don't get in the room and talk about it sensibly, we talk about it independently, and that's the problem.

The bill certainly compliments what we're trying to do with Vision 2040.

Protecting the natural beauty of our mountains is incredibly important.

These resolutions have been passed as legislative efforts began with former Sen. Pete V. Domenici, and are now maturing under Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall.

I believe that there is great potential for this area to provide tourism-related jobs.

I think that we can reconcile these things and still do what these areas and the people here deserve.

There has been a real attempt to try to deal with the realities in working with the Border Patrol and having an understanding with them.

I think they're out there, on the ground, dealing with this every day.

Climate change is a moving target, and clearly what would happen behind us to the east on the Organ Mountains could be completely different than what we saw in Hatch or down in El Paso.

I also want to thank this panel for being very specific at this point in land, very constructive.

Does this mean that the European environmental regulators will have better information about exposures to their populations than we will have here in the U.S.?

It was such a powerful book, and it said so much about how we were treating the environment.