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Udall to Boehner: Shut-down would be counterproductive

By | 04.06.11 | 7:59 am

Senator Mark Udall today sent House Speaker John Boehner a letter urging him to allow the government to be shut down. In addition to Udall, 15 other senators–including Michael Bennet–signed the letter.

Did Jane Norton actually read the Luntz bailout memo?

By | 04.22.10 | 9:01 am

U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton spoke for about a minute with ABC News Top Line Tuesday about Wall Street financial regulatory legislation, which Republicans had lined up to oppose. She said roughly four sentences on the legislation, depending on…

Norton trots out false talking point: Financial reform equals taxpayer bailouts

By | 04.20.10 | 4:52 pm

ABC News Top Line interviewed Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton on the coming push to pass stricter regulations designed to prevent the kinds of Wall Street abuses that led to the financial global crisis and recession. …

Udall MIA on effort to close gun-show loophole

By | 04.19.10 | 4:14 pm

There were calls to close it in the wake of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School. There were calls to close it in 2007 following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech. So far, though, Congress has done nothing to address the so-called gun-show loophole, which allows unlicensed vendors to sell firearms without performing background checks on the buyers. That kind of lawmaker inaction hasn’t gone unnoticed by the family members of some of the gun-show loophole victims.

Talking point foolery: Proposed bank ‘bailout fund’ is really an ‘execution fund’

By | 04.19.10 | 9:56 am

At the end of last week, the Obama administration reportedly told Senate Democrats to drop the $50 billion liquidation fund — often referred to as a “bailout fund” — from the financial regulation bill as a concession to Republicans.…

Udall, Bennet summoned with other conservative Dems to the White House

By | 09.10.09 | 2:11 pm

ABC is reporting that President Obama has asked to meet with select Democratic senators, including Colorado Sens Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, as well as former Connecticut Democrat now Independent Joe Lieberman. Speculation is that the president is looking…