Tom Udall

High crime rates and a dilapidated system of prisons and jails need to be fixed.

This public health and environmental disaster left a trail of contamination and sickness that must be addressed.

Secretary Salazar, you are part of the new administration and part of a new hope for Native Americans.

The need for reauthorization and improvement of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

I cannot think of anything more important than having the military have the right to vote when they are serving overseas.

I think the chairman is right-on in holding this hearing and proceeding on this.

I think we all want everybody to fully participate and we want to get people registered and give them that opportunity.

But we want to make sure that we have fair elections without fraud, and that is really the way to go.

I think this is an excellent nomination by Barack Obama.

I think when we talk about efficiency we're going to have to be analyzing whether we invest more in rail or do we invest more in roads?

You were known as someone who was fair, someone who allowed openness and the ability to speak.

We need to look specifically at how we really weigh in, in a big way to remedy the situation that we have right now.

I very much hope to be in this Committee, because it is such an important committee to the Nation and to New Mexico.

We may not be able to do it in one year, but boy, maybe we can do it in four years and have a specific plan to do that.

I see my time has expired. Thank you again for your service and I look forward to working with you as we continue to make the case to the American people with three or four or maybe even just two quick bullet points about why we have to be…

I think is really critical.

I really had the feeling that this one clearly does.

I think it is great that President-elect Obama is proceeding and has put your nomination forward, a career person who has worked in this area.

I hope you will be very aggressive about telling us where you think there are the holes, the loopholes in the law that need to be filled.

I know that President-elect Obama is going to make a priority, I think, out of cleaning up hazardous waste sites.

President Obama has bold plans for addressing the major environmental issues of this century.

I wanted to receive assurances from you that you will continue to focus on that commitment and make sure those resources are forthcoming.

I would like a commitment from you that once you are confirmed, that you take a close look at these three issues, ongoing cleanup, worker health, and property damage claims.

I look forward to supporting your confirmation on the Senate floor when that occurs.

Again, I want to emphasize that by doing so, then we will send a message to other workers in other parts of the country that as we clean up places like Hanford, we work in Ohio and Oklahoma and South Carolina, Nevada, that those promises…