Tom Udall

U.S. senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman introduced a bill in Congress to create a “Center of Excellence” research program at the University of New Mexico (UNM) for cavernous angioma.
Cavernous angioma is a rare, genetic brain disease that disproportionately affects New Mexicans whose ancestors arrived from Mexico and Spain more than 200 years ago.
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Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and two other Senators introduced a bill designed to “achieve American oil independence” by 2030. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a majority of the oil consumed in the United States comes from foreign sources.

The United States Senate voted 60-39 to pass a sweeping financial reform bill today, “overhauling the regulation of everything from the biggest banks to consumer financial products to exotic instruments like credit-default swaps to the derivatives used by farmers.”
Like the vote on cloture, three Republicans, Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Susan Collins, [...]

Sen. Tom Udall may be coming to a television near you. Udall is now hosting a new TV show that will air on public access and be archived  his website.

Uranium mining in Churchrock advanced last week as an appeals court cleared the way for Hydro Resources to start in-situ leaching in Northwest New Mexico. But residents and environmentalists worry that the mining will contaminate water. Because of the ongoing issue of abandoned mines that haven’t been cleaned up and a legacy of illness caused by exposure in the mines, the Navajo Nation banned uranium mining of all types in 2005.

A resolution that would have barred the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases failed today in the U.S. Senate on a 53-47 vote. Six Democrats voted for the resolution that would have almost certainly forced a veto from President Barack Obama.

A wilderness area proposed by U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall could be more open to motor vehicle traffic after the senators decided to make changes to the Organ Mountains –Desert Peaks Wilderness Act that would give Border Patrol more access.

At the America’s Future Now! conference in Washington D.C., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, told the group of progressives that he worries filibuster reform, a proposal touted by New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, might eliminate a valuable tool.

Socorro will receive a $1.2 million federal stimulus loan and $3.29 million in federal grants to revamp its water system. Despite numerous New Mexico municipalities’ struggles to comply with federal and state drinking water quality standards, Socorro was the only New Mexico water system to receive U.S. Agriculture Department clean water stimulus funding.

Northern New Mexico’s Valles Caldera could become a national park if a bill introduced Thursday by Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall is successful. The Park Service has already completed a study determining that the Caldera meets National Park criteria. Hunting, fishing and cattle grazing would still be allowed under the bill.

Some New Mexico politicians praised President Barack Obama’s reported decision to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the border. Obama will also request $500 million in supplemental funding for border security.

Congress and the White House have reached a compromise on repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that says openly gay men and women can’t serve in the military. The measure is moving quickly and could soon come to a vote in Congress.
U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman and U.S. Reps. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan have [...]

Sen. Tom Udall will meet with Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan Wednesday, his office announced today. Udall, who has been supportive of Kagan, and his colleagues in the Senate will vote on Kagan’s confirmation.

Senators on Tuesday tried to get answers from industry executives about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Hearings are being held in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman announced his support for President Barack Obama’s choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, while Sen. Tom Udall praised her qualifications without exactly saying he supported Kagan.

Sen. Tom Udall called the blockage of Obama administration nominees “unacceptable” in a speech on the Senate floor Friday.
“In the old days, you got to put your people into place in the first couple of weeks of an administration,” Udall said. “I remember my father telling me that he took over as Secretary of the [...]

Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats from New Mexico, will ask BP executives about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from one of BP’s oil drilling rigs. The oil spill is threatening the Louisiana coast.

New Mexico U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats, signed onto a letter today pledging to end the process of “secret holds” where any Senator can stop a bill from moving forward without disclosing their names.

The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Ken Gonzales as New Mexico’s new U.S. Attorney yesterday. Gonzales earned his bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of New Mexico.

The recently passed Arizona immigration law shows “Congress needs to pass comprehensive immigration reform, Sen. Tom Udall told New Mexico radio reporters Tuesday.