Tom Udall

If the Sioux people don't want Fighting Sioux, it shouldn't be around. That is so simple.

We are asking for your support to influence your peers, the voting public, to hopefully see us in a different light.

Could you get into that a little bit more?

I hope that as you have described it, the hearing that we are having today will also, like the NCAA policy, open the doors, make people think and continue to push the trend.

It is really unfortunate, because none of the tribes were consulted and none of the Native American citizens of the tribal nations in North Dakota were included at that table for that bill to be passed.

I find the association of Geronimo with bin Laden to be highly inappropriate and culturally insensitive.

I think they are very important voices, and certainly as someone who has benefitted from being one generation behind many of these distinguished guests, I am in great respect and appreciation of their time and efforts.

I also wanted to mention that in my State of North Dakota, we have the Fighting Sioux nickname at the University of North Dakota.

I think we all talk about the smart grid, but I think it's in the eye of the beholder.

This is an important and timely hearing, and I want to acknowledge the leadership of the ranking member and the chairman.

My appeal to all of you and all of us is to focus on this and truly get something done in the near, near future.

The longer we delay obviously the more we may experience an incident that we will regret.

I commend these local and Federal officials who have coordinated efforts across the state.

I would like to thank Chairman Rockefeller for holding this important hearing.

In New Mexico widespread and intense drought has left farms, grassland, and forests dry and vulnerable.

I strongly believe the next surface transportation bill can address the enormous infrastructure needs of our cities--which we all know have been ignored for far too long--as well as the needs of rural America.

Let's get it done. Let's reinvest in America.

I would like to thank the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture for the combined support of over $100 million...

Do you support efforts to level the playing field so that advanced biofuels qualify for the same tax incentives...

I'm proud to say that the district attorney, who was the DA at the time, who brought the case, the deputy district attorney who actually prosecuted the case, the district attorney in our jurisdiction who is there today and his chief…

Nuclear energy safety must be the top priority for Government regulators and it should be the top priority for the industry as well.

I appreciate very much and welcome my colleagues that I served with over in the House and look forward to hearing their testimony.

Maybe asking it another way. If they didn't get a permit, they were in violation of the law.

So you are seeing that as a problem, it sounds like.

Hydraulic fracturing using diesel fuel for the fluid is subject to the Safe Drinking Water Act requirements.