Ken Salazar

there would be nothing more important to me, personally, than frankly, getting Ellis Island totally restored and open it to tell America's story on immigration

Your legislation is exactly what our approach is, that there are right places for there to be development, and there are places where we ought not to have development.

The fact again here is that the best way these things work is exactly the kind of effort many members of this subcommittee were involved in, and that was the passage of the Public Lands Management Act of 2009.

The answer is yes, and I will have David amplify on the response.

In 2010, it is about 102 years after President Roosevelt called the leaders of America together to essentially launch the conservation agenda.

and to John Tester, the Senator from Montana, who has taken me to Glacier National Park and other places, you are a wonderful group of people.

Senator Alexander, thank you for your leadership, for welcoming me to the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains.

It is absolutely unacceptable that any Government process like this should take 3 to 9 years.

There is no hidden agenda on the part of my Department.

So, we will listen to the people of this country, State by State, as we develop the initiatives.

It is a huge issue in this subcommittee, including Senator Feinstein, who have taken a huge lead role in addressing the problem that we have with tens of thousands of abandoned mines in the West.

I think our staffs have essentially come up with agreement on the boundaries so we can avoid conflicts to the maximum extent.

There have been no directions from the White House that we move forward with the monument designation.

I do believe that the Land and Water Conservation Fund essentially has been robbed.

it is, in my mind, completely unacceptable to have a developer of an oil and gas wind farm having to wait 7 to 9 years to get to final permitting.

to Senator Cochran, who in front of this Senate introduced Sam Hamilton to be the Director of FWS;

Thank you very, very much, Senator Feinstein, not only for your leadership of this subcommittee, but for your leadership on so many issues.

to Senator Collins, who really was the chief sponsor of so many movements on the LWCF;

There are appropriate places for siting the wind-energy potential and places that we ought to protect.

I think that the work that this committee did last year in pushing forward for what became, what I considered to be the American Great Outdoors Act of 2009 was known here in some quarters as the Omnibus Land Bill, was a wonderful effort on…

It is not often one can end a 67-year-old controversy with a stroke of a pen, but that is exactly what we are doing.

It is not often one can end a 67-year-old controversy with a stroke of a pen, but that is exactly what we are doing.

I see the impacts of climate change and the warming of the climate firsthand in the places that I have responsibility to manage on behalf of the American people.

the scientists are projecting a 20 percent decline in the water availability from the Colorado River Basin.

we want to create millions of jobs here in America; we want to get us to energy independence as a Nation; and we want to protect our children and our planet from the dangers of pollution.