Ken Salazar
Ken Salazar
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Salazarserved as the 50th United States Secretary of the Interior, in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2005 to 2009. He and Mel Martinezwere the first Hispanic U.S. Senators since 1977; they were joined by Bob Menendezin January 2006. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, he served as Attorney General of Colorado from 1999...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 March 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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I have repeatedly been in touch with the administration and the Japanese ambassador, and still no progress has been made. Now we must toughen our stance to encourage the Japanese government to open its markets or face consequences,
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the faith of a person should not be a consideration on their nomination or confirmation for any judicial position in the United States.
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If I were to add a statewide campaign for governor, I think it would be too much.
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I'm very pleased that progress is being made, ... I know the legislative process, and there's still a long way to go before we get to a final conclusion to this saga. But this is a significant step forward.
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Everywhere I've gone in Colorado, the farmers are telling me they're about ready to go into bankruptcy because they can't borrow any more money, ... The money they're having to spend on fuel prices I think is going to put a number of our farmers over the brink.
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During harvest, agricultural producers are some of the largest fuel consumers in the United States,
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Farmers need to work together with their community to try and develop measures of relief, ... Nothing specifically can be done yet, but there is much concern.
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At the end of the day, the president should know if he sends someone who is an ideologue or somebody who is an extremist right winger, that person is going to have a very, very difficult time getting through the Senate, ... I think you'll find unity among the Democratic caucus in opposing someone like that.
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This episode where the White House consulted with powerful interests in the Republican Party but not sufficiently with the Senate is troubling and disappointing, ... I renew my call that the President provide sufficient and necessary information about his nominee for the United States Supreme Court to the Senate so we can perform our Constitutional duty of advice and consent.
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Specifically, Mr. Brown represented to the public that he could not have imagined the levees being breached in New Orleans, even though he had been briefed by federal government experts nearly a day and a half before Hurricane Katrina made landfall that those levees could indeed be breached by the hurricane surge,
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A year ago, the Energy Department forecast that gasoline would be selling for $1.80 a gallon, not the $3.12 a gallon that it was in Colorado yesterday, ... These continuing high prices will create economic havoc in Colorado's economy and across the country.
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Rural Americans and ranchers are on the brink of existence, ... The rising fuel costs will put family farmers and ranchers out of business if they continue to go up, and this is just one of the horrible consequences of rising oil prices.
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I have heard from one Colorado farmer in Kit Carson County who has estimated that in order to harvest this year, he will need an additional $46,000 to cover fuel costs alone,
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My concern is that he will appoint somebody who is a right-wing ideologue, ... If in fact he does that, I will be leading the fight against the confirmation, even if that means being at the point of the spear.