On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

This Act would allow the President to identify specific items of federal spending that he thinks should be cut from appropriation bills and then require Congress to vote on each of those items individually. Senate


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On January 15 2007 incumbent Senator Wayne Allard announced he would not run for a third term. It was estimated that all mature lodgepole pines could be decimated by 2010 if action is not taken.

Mark Emery Udall (born July 18 1950) is the senior United States Senator from Colorado and a member of the Democratic Party. Representative Morris "Mo" Udall. From 1999 to 2009 Udall served in the United States House of Representatives representing Colorado's 2nd congressional district.