Mark Udall News

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- The office of Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., issued the following news release: Building on his successful effort to encourage the Federal Communications Commission and cell phone carriers to work together and build a database of stolen smart phones to prevent them from being reactivated, Sen.

Any bill that is sponsored by Sens. Mark Udall and Rand Paul , or any similarly odd ideological couple, more than meets the definition of bipartisan.

A move is under way to put some regulations in place concerning privacy and the use of unmanned aircraft, otherwise known as drones.

The Department of Defense recently released a report estimating that 26,000 sexual assaults occurred in the military last year.

I'm able to pick Sen. Mark Udall's voice out of a din, and I can quote some of Sen.

A firefightier watches a backfire set in Hungry Valley State Park to halt the prgress of the Grand fire, which charred more than 3,000 acres of wildlands near Frazier Park on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

An air tanker drops slurry on the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs in June 2012.

At least five candidates are officially challenging Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2014 and another three are mulling whether to jump in the race .

A key Senate committee on Tuesdayoverwhelmingly approved legislation that calls for the U.S. to provide small arms to moderate Syrian opposition groups fighting strongman Bashar al-Assad, the Wall Street Journal reports.

In the twenty years since the creation of Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State , one trend has become clear: The regulatory state is growing in large part because the executive branch increasingly uses its control over rulemaking to enact policies it could not get approved by Congress.

When the weather gets warm in Longmont, the windows open. The yard work starts. And the train horn complaints begin to pile up all over again.

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the public's help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central Colorado.

It looks more and more as though Republican Scott Gessler will run for Governor rather than Secretary of State , so we've moved his line "off" the board for SOS.

Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado is urging the U.S. Forest Service to make sure a contract dispute doesn't ground large air tankers used to fight wildfires.

Concerned that teenage obesity has dramatically reduced the number of people eligible for military service, Sen.

There's a story in western Colorado involving Colorado National Monument that bears watching.

May 17, 2013 - Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., on Thursday introduced S. 968, the bipartisan "Small Business Lending Enhancement Act of 2013," to raise the credit union member business lending cap, and NAFCU President and CEO Fred Becker called on credit unions to help build support for the measure.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, left, greets Neal Vercler and other Americorps workers Friday, February 22, 2013 at Wolfe Ranch in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, known for his hard-line stances on immigration, is seriously considering a run for governor in 2014.

Colorado's tech industry employed 162,600 in 2012, adding 600 net jobs from a year ago, according to the 15th edition of the Cyberstates report from the TechAmerica Foundation, a trade association.