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8 Things to Know About Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO)
1. His great-grandfather and Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather crossed paths once upon a time. From The Denver Post:
“Senate candidate Mark Udall and presidential contender Mitt Romney’s Mormon great-grandfathers crossed paths in Arizona in the 19th century. It was an era of bitter distrust between Mormons and other white settlers. David K. Udall briefly served time in prison for a perjury conviction in a dubious land-fraud case involving Miles P. Romney, who fled to Mexico to establish a safe haven for other polygamists.”
2. His father Morris “Mo” Udall played in the NBA for the Denver Nuggets. From the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation:
“After earning a law degree at the University of Arizona, he obtained an airplane pilot license, played professional basketball for the Denver Nuggets and, after scoring highest on the state bar exam, was admitted to the Arizona Bar and began practicing law with his brother Stewart. “
3. Golf Digest named him the “top-ranked” golfer among elected officials in Washington. From Golf Digest:
“Top-ranked among elected officials--after considering reports from multiple sources and a shortage of posted rounds by him or his closest contenders--is Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), a widely acknowledged 2-handicapper.”
4. Before coming to Washington he worked as a course director and executive director of the Colorado Outward Bound School. From POLITICO:
“The five-term congressman and newly minted senator from Colorado is quick to disclaim any special insights about team-building or effective leadership. But Udall’s 20-year-long association with Outward Bound, which offers character-building wilderness adventures for everyone from at-risk youth to top corporate executives, suggests that he’s probably got a few tricks up his parka sleeve.”
5. His cousin Tom Udall (D-NM) is a U.S. Senator as well. From US News:
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A bill that would have given businesses a tax credit for up to 20% of the expenses incurred by bringing work done in foreign countries back into the United States, provided the business also increased its number of full-time employees.
Appropriations bill that allocated $3.6 billion in supplemental appropriations, including $2.73 billion to assist immigrant children and $615 million for wildfire suppression.
A dangerous amendment by Senator Lee that would have drastically reduced already insufficient funding for the federal highway and transit program from $37.6 billion to $7.6 billion.
Senator Carper amendment that reauthorized federal-aid highway and transit programs through Dec. 19, 2014, and compelled Congress to attempt to find a long-term funding solution before the end of the year.
Confirmation of President Barack Obama's nomination of Pamela Harris of Maryland to be a judge for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Republicans in the Senate blocked discussion of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act when they rejected a motion to consider debate on a bill that would allow eligible borrowers to refinance their student loans.
This bill would have increased the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 by 2016.
The Paycheck Fairness Act would have required employers to demonstrate that wage gaps between men and women doing the same work were actually due to factors besides gender. It also would have prohibited retaliation against workers who
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Mark Udall, the outgoing Democratic senator from Colorado, may be a lame duck, leaving office in less than a week. But his most important work in the Senate may still be before him. For the week he remains in office, he still sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He worked on that committee’s epic, 6,700-page, still-secret report, the “Committee Study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program,” otherwise known as the torture report. The intelligence committee has recently released a heavily redacted declassified executive summary of the report, in which new, gory details of the torture conducted during the Bush/Cheney administration have been made public for the first time.
Udall is angry about the U.S. torture program. He is angry about the heavy redaction of the executive summary, and the CIA and White House interference in the intelligence committee’s oversight work. He wants the full report made available to the public. While it is still secret, Udall could release the classified document in its entirety. To understand how, it helps to go back to 1971, the release of the Pentagon Papers and a senator from Alaska named Mike Gravel.
The Pentagon Papers were a secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, written on the orders of then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Daniel Ellsberg, one of the analysts who worked on the project, leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. Ellsberg told me, “There were 7,000 pages of top-secret documents that demonstrated unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents, the violation of their oath and the violation of the oath of every one of their subordinates [including me] who had participated in that terrible, indecent fraud over the years in Vietnam, lying us into a hopeless war.”
The New York Times published its first Pentagon Papers story on June 13, 1971. A federal court then ordered The New York Times to cease publication, so Ells
Mark Udall
American politician (born 1950)
Mark Emery Udall (YOO-dawl; born July 18, 1950) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Colorado's 2nd congressional district. Before being elected to Congress, he represented parts of Boulder, Colorado, in the Colorado House of Representatives.
Throughout his career, he has proposed legislation to support renewable energy, expand national parks, and protect natural resources. Born in Tucson, Arizona, he is the son of former U.S. Representative Mo Udall and the nephew of former U.S. Representative Stewart Udall. A member of the Udall family, a westernAmerican political family, his relatives include New Mexico's Tom Udall and Utah's Mike Lee. Udall ran for reelection in 2014 to a second term in the U.S. Senate, but was narrowly defeated by Republican challenger Cory Gardner.
Early life and education
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Mark Udall was born in Tucson, Arizona, to Patricia J. (née Emery) and Morris "Mo" Udall, the U.S. representative for Arizona's 2nd congressional district from 1961 to 1991, and candidate for the 1976 Democratic nomination for President. Udall attended and graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in 1968, where he was elected student body president. Udall won the Arizona State Golf Championship Boy's division in 1968.
Udall later graduated from Williams College in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in American civilization. In 1976 Udall worked as a field coordinator for his father's campaign to win the Democratic nomination against Jimmy Carter.
After college, Udall moved to Colorado and began his career with Outward Bound, a non-profitoutdoor education organization. For ten years Udall worked as a course instructor, in which he would bring pa