John Salazar: “Absolutely. It is the President-elect's mission, and we will be part of that mission as we take this energy moon shot.”

I believe it is time we looked for a bipartisan legislation that will once again allow forest-management decisions to be made by those who wear the emblem of the Forest Service.

I would not be taking this job, Senator Sanders, if this was about talk and no action.

I would hope that one of the things that you can do, Senator Menendez and the rest of this committee, is not to look at this Department as a Department of the West, because it is not.

There are some realities that are going to hit this committee, the Members of the Congress, the President-elect and all of us, and that is, that we are in some very tough economic times.