Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Tom Udall [D, NM]

Bible Pathway - May 18, 2013

2013-05-18T01:00:00Z

...reckoning, counted together; 23:24 by their polls, individually, by census, head counts. Pray for Government Officials: Sen. Tom Udall (NM) • Country: Dominican Republic (8 million) in the West Indies, occupying the eastern two-thirds of the island of

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Schumer, Democrats Urged IRS to Target Tea Party Groups in 2012

2013-05-18T01:00:00Z

...the Daily Caller reports. Schumer, along with fellow Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken, contacted the IRS last year requested the agency cap the amount of political spending by gr

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Revive filibuster reform

2013-05-18T01:00:00Z

...how to change this so advise-and-consent does not become an instrument of destruction.” Merkley has been working with Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, on a reform plan that would achieve that balance. It would require senators to actually be on the Senat

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Flashback: Schumer, Franken urged IRS to target tea party in 2012

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...the IRS to do just that. Last year, Schumer, along with Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken, penned a letter calling on the agency to cap the amount of the political spending by gro

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Senate committee reapproves ‘land for land’ deals

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...Facilitation Act was originally authorized in 2000. The bill to reauthorize the act was co-sponsored by Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall among others including Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV). “This common-sense program achieves the dual goals of conservat

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Heinrich proposes fed mineral royalty fix

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...to New Mexico energy and mineral revenues that will be withheld from the state this year because of the budget sequester. Sen. Tom Udall took a different approach this week when he introduced bipartisan legislation that would bar federal withholding of

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10 Questions Obama Must Answer on IRS Scandal

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO ), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Sen. Al Franken (D-MN)? What communications existed between Obama reelection campa

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Udall says Dem senators’ letter to IRS didn’t target conservative groups

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...on the First Amendment rights of certain groups is abhorrent, but what is even more disturbing is the fact that our own Sen. Tom Udall encouraged such infringement,” Billingsley said. Udall, who is up for re-election in 2014, wanted “across-the-boar

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New Mexico lawmakers move to protect mineral royalties

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...— Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Luján have joined other Western lawmakers in introducing legislation to protect New Mexico's mineral royalties from the effects of the federal sequester. The New Mexico Democrats are cosponsoring identical bills intr

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Editorial: Abuses by IRS deserve serious review, response

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...criminal. Denunciations have been widespread and cross party lines, New Mexico’s congressional delegation included. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., called for a thorough investigation. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., called the practice “reprehensible,” and Re

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NM leaders fight to keep Jal’s water

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...in June to start putting water in that pipeline, taking it out of the aquifer and rolling it out to the town,” U.S. Sen. Tom Udall said. Udall said the pipeline needs to connect leaders, not draw a line in the sand. “Midland has said we don't want t

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Bill to lower barriers to pregnant teens’ education

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...states and local school districts support pregnant and parenting youth who face challenges staying in school, legislators say. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M.; Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., said each year approximately 750,000 U

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Senate votes to extend federal water projects law

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...projects, "we cannot simply pile more projects on the to-do list." "The plate has been full for over 25 years," said Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. "Project authorizations far exceed the money to pay for them." The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the

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Western lawmakers push to restore mineral funds

2013-05-14T01:00:00Z

...money instead of cutting its own spending. The government needs to uphold its end of the deal." Co-sponsors are Sens. Tom Udall , D-N.M., John Barrasso , R-Wyo., Heidi Heitkamp , D-N.D., John Hoeven , R-N.D., Orrin Hatch , R-Utah, and Jim Risch , R-Idah

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Senate Democrats demanded stricter IRS standards for tax-exempt groups

2013-05-13T01:00:00Z

...who signed the 2012 letter included Schumer, Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.). For more federal news, visit The Federal Eye, The Fed Page a

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Guns and the filibuster

2013-05-13T01:00:00Z

...amendment’s failure on Senate rules. Hendrik Hertzberg in The New Yorker bluntly asserted, “It’s the system, stupid.” Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), one of the leaders of the demand for “Talking Filibuster” reform, complained, “Fifty-four ... se

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Bill to lower barriers to pregnant teens' education

2013-05-11T01:00:00Z

...local school districts support pregnant and parenting youth who face challenges staying in school, legislators say. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M.; Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., said each year approximately 750,000 U.S. teens g

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Editorial: Udall horse doping bill ready to run for reform

2013-05-10T01:00:00Z

...Tom Udall is preparing to take a needed run at cleaning up the horse racing industry by creating a national standard for the use of performance-enhancing drugs in races with interstate simulcast wagering. The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act would s

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There’s no place for horse slaughter in our state

2013-05-09T01:00:00Z

...including low-cost and free humane euthanasia and disposal for suffering horses or those equines who cannot be re-homed. Sen. Tom Udall is sponsoring federal legislation to rein in horse-racing cheaters, in recognition of the ethical obligations to hors

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Udall Seeks to Block Feds from Taking NM Mineral Royalties

2013-05-09T01:00:00Z

...Tom Udall today will introduce legislation to block the federal government from taking $25 million of New Mexico’s federal energy and mineral royalties this year as part of the ongoing budget sequester. Udall, a New Mexico Democrat, is teaming up with

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