John Salazar: “We cannot let bureaucratic impediments or the balkanization of the Federal Government essentially stand in the way of…”

I will take whatever steps are necessary, and within the scope of my authority, to redress improper decision-making regarding endangered species determinations.

I wouldn't support stopping anyone from using our legal system to protect our forests.

The mountain pine beetle epidemic in Colorado and throughout the West is devastating, Madam Chair. It is destroying our forests and threatening our communities.

Don't they say in the West you can steal my wife but don't steal my water? I don't say that.