Tom Udall

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Thank you, Chairman Hoeven, for calling this oversight hearing to commemorate the 30th anniversary of tribal self-governance.

I believe there is language in the fiscal year 2018 appropriation bill that talks about when you all look at these kinds of decisions, consulting DOD (Department of Defense) and making sure--Mr. Petty is nodding his head here, so I guess I…

I believe this is outrageous considering the record amount of money this committee has approved for DOD in recent years.

I thank the Presiding Officer for the recognition. Madam President, I rise today as the ranking member on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. In our parlance on the committee, it is called the vice chair. Normally, our committee is very…

An estimated 10,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed by Saudi airstrikes.

a political resolution vice a military resolution is necessary here.

We are going to keep pushing for one, and we hope that you will find a way to do this.

smart border technology would be a much more effective and efficient security investment.

the National Guard is there because Customs and Border Protection have identified areas where they can be assisted by the deployment of National Guard troops to help them secure the border.

I introduced an amendment with Senators Rounds, Boozman, Murray, and Heinrich last year to the NDAA which I plan to reintroduce as a standalone bill as well to fix this problem.

Sheriff Vigil says the border is not experiencing the crisis the Trump Administration claims and he says building a wall and sending in National Guard troops would be a waste of money.

A September 27, 2017, article by Reuters with regard to EPA workforce reductions describes EPA's workforce declining to levels not seen in decades. The article says: In June, the EPA unveiled a buyout program that would contribute to the…

So here we have an attempt by Administrator Pruitt to emasculate the Agency by chasing off some of the best and brightest scientists, buying out people, doing everything he can to intimidate people to leave the Agency, and we are at a…

I have come to the floor to talk a little bit about Scott Pruitt and his administration over at the EPA as well as the current pending nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be the Environmental Protection Agency's Deputy Administrator. The…

I think the closer parallel is Nixon.

Cuba is about to choose its first leader who is not a Castro. Yet, the U.S. presence in the country has been reduced significantly.

I think it would put us in a constitutional crisis.

I would just say I am very proud of many of the Republicans in the--who serve in the United States Senate standing up and saying that they think that this would be intolerable and they would not accept it.

If you either had the firing of the deputy attorney general, Rosenstein, or you had the firing of the special prosecutor, Mueller, this would be an unbelievable, extraordinary event in our history.

We are living in kind of an extraordinary time in terms of our Constitution and what is unfolding.

I think it would be very unfortunate if we are the one that pulls back and sets the stage for a very chaotic future.

I think they should answer the question.

Iran will have the freedom to build an arsenal of nuclear weapons at the end of the commitment.

Are you committed to robust diplomacy, as our Ranking Member Senator Menendez talked about, and committed to do everything you can to prevent future wars?