Ken Salazar: “I appreciate your strong sentiment with respect to those 77 lease parcels.”

I can guarantee you, Senator Alexander, that there will never be a wind farm built in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

By investing in our parks and promoting them to visitors, especially internationally, we can have the dual benefit of an improved National Park System and a stronger economy that produces more jobs.

The answer is yes, we do because of the action that you all took to provide the recovery monies for Hurricane Sandy.

It is the right thing to do.