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Mar 14
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Mar 14
Update: A Better, Bipartisan Way Forward on Sequestration
Since the last time I wrote to you, the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration have taken effect, and I know it's starting to take its toll on many Coloradans. Nearly 8,500 Coloradans shared their stories with me about how the sequestration harms them and their families. From job losses to pay cuts to an inability to make tuition payments, these realities underline why these automatic budget cuts are neither the smartest nor the most strategic way to reduce the federal budget deficit.
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Mar 8
Commemorating Women's History Month
Last year, I commemorated the start of March - Women's History Month - by rallying Coloradans' support to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. Offering protections and tools to support survivors of violence should be common sense and never used for political brinksmanship. After long months of gridlock holding up this life-saving bill, I was proud to watch President Obama sign it into law yesterday.
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Mar 7
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Mar 4
Udall-Collins Plan Strategically Implements Sequestration
It's time Washington stopped playing the blame game on sequestration and worked together to replace arbitrary cuts with smarter, focused spending reductions. That's why I am proud to join with Republican Senator Susan Collins to propose a bipartisan plan to deal with sequestration.
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Mar 20
Udall Welcomes Restoration of Tuition Assistance for Service Members
Mark Udall, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined his colleagues in amending the Continuing Resolution today to preserve tuition assistance for military personnel. Udall, who co-sponsored the amendment, said today's vote is a welcome development following an announcement earlier this month that sequestration had forced the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps to suspend educational tuition assistance for service members.
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Mar 20
Udall: Passage of Watershed Protection, Wildfire Recovery Funds a Major Victory for Colorado
Mark Udall welcomed the passage today of U.S. Senate legislation containing $65.5 million to help communities like El Paso County and Larimer County repair watersheds damaged in last summer's wildfires, calling it a major victory for Colorado. The Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program funds, also included in the Continuing Resolution that passed the U.S. House of Representatives, will allow Colorado communities affected by the devastating High Park and Waldo Canyon fires to deal with degraded water quality, high flooding risk and eroded watersheds.
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Mar 20
Udall Welcomes Senate's Rejection of Proposal to Gut Military Efforts on Energy Security
Mark Udall thanked his colleagues in the U.S. Senate today for rejecting a shortsighted attempt to hollow out the U.S. military's pursuit of alternative fuels. Udall, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has led efforts in the Senate to allow the U.S. Department of Defense to develop alternative fuels, including arguing last week on the Senate floor that the amendment rejected today would undermine U.S. energy security and national security.
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Mar 18
Udall, Bennet Welcome $5.2 Million to Help Turn Around Failing Colorado Schools
Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet welcomed today's announcement from the U.S. Department of Education that Colorado won a $5.2 million competitive grant to help turn around low-achieving schools. Colorado, which received the funds through the School Improvement Grants program, is one of 10 states awarded during this latest round of grants.
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Mar 18
Udall Joins Bipartisan Effort to Create Smithsonian American Latino Museum
Mark Udall today announced that he became an original co-sponsor of the Smithsonian American Latino Museum Act, which would create a Smithsonian American Latino Museum and designate the Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as its home. The bipartisan bill also would authorize a board of regents to fundraise and plan for the construction of the future museum.
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Mar 12
Mark Udall Presses Intel Chiefs on Transparency, Detention & Interrogation Report
Video requires Flash PlayerMark Udall, who serves on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, pressed the heads of the CIA and other intelligence agencies today on declassifying the committee's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program and correcting the inaccurate public record on the effectiveness of the program. Udall also pressed new CIA Director John Brennan on recent remarks attributed to unnamed agency officials disputing many of the report's findings, and pushed for an updated deadline for the CIA to provide its comments to the committee on the committee's report.
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Mar 8
Bloomberg News highlights Udall-Suthers warning to Coloradans on tax-preparation fraud
Video requires Flash PlayerBloomberg News aired a story with a warning from U.S. Senator Mark Udall and Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to Colorado consumers, asking them to beware of tax-preparation fraud, a common scam where tax preparers change return documents to increase the return amounts and steal the refunds.
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Mar 7
Udall Questions Jewell, Nominee for Interior Secretary, During Confirmation Hearing
Mark Udall spoke with Sally Jewell, President Obama's nominee to head the U.S. Department of the Interior, during her confirmation hearing. As a member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and chairman of the National Parks Subcommittee, Udall questioned Jewell about her vision for managing our public lands and how she would confront the challenges we face in Colorado and the West.
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Mar 7
Udall Supports Safeguarding Constitutional Liberties, Limits to Executive Branch Powers
Mark Udall spoke on the U.S. Senate floor about congressional oversight of intelligence programs, our constitutional system of checks and balances, and CIA director nominee John Brennan.
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Feb 12
Udall asks Hickenlooper on potential effects on Colorado of natural gas development
During a full committee hearing of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Udall questioned Gov. John Hickenlooper about natural gas development and highlighted the importance of balancing the economic opportunity against protecting the health and well-being of Coloradans.
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