John Salazar: “I believe it is time we looked for a bipartisan legislation that will once again allow forest-management decisions to be…”

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.

we ought not to be reckless and thoughtless about how we move forward.

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.

we cannot let bureaucratic impediments or the balkanization of the Federal Government essentially stand in the way of results.