John Salazar
John Salazar
John Tony Salazaris the former Congressman for Colorado's 3rd congressional district, serving from 2005 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Following his service in Congress, he was appointed as Commissioner of the Colorado Department of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Governor John Hickenlooper in 2011, and announced his retirement as Commissioner in November, 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 July 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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Our number one priority should be to guarantee that all American worker get the benefits they have earned -- everyone should get back what they worked so hard to put into the system. Changing the Social Security system to drain the trust fund and cut benefits simply does not make sense,
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We're very concerned about the impact this will have, particularly on small businesses. This will give anyone the right to access the nonwork areas of a business to talk to employees about any law, not just labor laws. It could be very disruptive and invasive to small businesses.
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Our No. 1 priority should be to guarantee that all American workers get the benefits they have earned -- everyone should get back what they worked so hard to put into the system. Changing the Social Security system to drain the trust fund and cut benefits simply does not make sense,
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Somehow that case slipped through the cracks. A net had to be established, especially here in Santa Cruz where people care so much about people.
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I'm so impressed by the way the people of Southern Colorado are responding to Hurricane Katrina. This is the largest natural disaster I've seen, but we're all standing shoulder to shoulder to help.
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He was scared. I had never seen a terrified face like that.
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I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before.
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would lead to a 40 percent cut in current benefits for middle-class beneficiaries, add 5 trillion dollars to our national debt and make the system weaker in the future.
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We have a moral obligation to stand up and protect Social Security for the next 70 years and beyond -- that means stopping privatization and dropping partisan demands for private accounts,
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We do believe that higher wages are better for everyone,
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servants of the people and should be held to the same standards as those we represent. This is evidence that our system of checks and balances is working in the best interests of the people. No one is above the law.
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A partisan panel of government officials to look into the government's mistakes? That's like the fox guarding the henhouse,
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It has never been a day late or a dollar short, ... But now, that guaranteed benefit is being threatened by a fabricated crisis and a false solution.
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It's made a lot of veterans angry when I talked to them at the VA hospital. We're not keeping our promises to veterans and they know it.