John Salazar: “Achieving these objectives requires a Secretary willing to engage Indian country, listen to and appreciate the wisdom…”

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.

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

You can steal neither my wife nor my water.

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.