Ken Salazar

U.S. SENATOR FROM COLORADO

TRIBUTES

IN THE CONGRESS OF

THE UNITED STATES

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Ken Salazar

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 2012

S. DOC. 111–36

Tributes

Delivered in Congress

Ken Salazar

United States Senator

2005–2009

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CONTENTS

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Biography .................................................................................................. v

Letter of Resignation ................................................................................ viii

Farewell to the Senate ............................................................................. ix

Proceedings in the Senate:

Tributes by Senators:

Cochran, Thad, of Mississippi ................................................... 16

Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut ....................................... 15

Durbin, Richard, of Illinois ........................................................ 18

Feingold, Russell D., of Wisconsin ............................................ 14

Hatch, Orrin G., of Utah ........................................................... 16

Klobuchar, Amy, of Minnesota .................................................. 12

Lieberman, Joseph I., of Connecticut ....................................... 7

McConnell, Mitch, of Kentucky ................................................. 6

Pryor, Mark L., of Arkansas ..................................................... 10

Reed, Jack, of Rhode Island ...................................................... 9

Reid, Harry, of Nevada .............................................................. 3, 17

Udall, Mark, of Colorado ........................................................... 13

Whitehouse, Sheldon, of Rhode Island ..................................... 12

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BIOGRAPHY

KEN SALAZAR, a fifth-generation Coloradan, served as

Colorado’s 35th U.S. Senator. He won election in November

2004 and served on the Finance Committee, which oversees

the Nation’s tax, trade, Social Security, and health care systems. He also served on the Agriculture, Energy and Natural

Resources, Ethics, Veterans’ Affairs, and Aging Committees.

As a U.S. Senator, KEN SALAZAR was a leader in creating

and implementing a vision for a renewable-energy economy

that is less dependent on foreign oil. He was involved in

every major bipartisan legislative effort on energy since

2005, including helping craft the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007. Senator

SALAZAR also tackled the challenge of providing affordable

health care by fighting to broaden the Children’s Health Insurance Program and by working to improve health care for

older Americans.

KEN SALAZAR has been a champion for farmers, ranchers,

and rural communities. He led efforts to pass the 2007 farm

bill and to create food and fuel security for America. He

worked to help veterans in rural communities get better access to health care by creating the Office of Rural Health in

the Department of Veterans Affairs and by pressing that

agency to open new rural outreach clinics in Colorado.

He also exercised a leadership role in championing a new

defense and foreign policy that restores American security

and influence around the world and pressed for a change in

mission in Iraq to better advance America’s national security

interests. Senator SALAZAR worked to strengthen our military to ensure that we are able to confront emerging threats.

In his position on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator SALAZAR advocated for the wise

stewardship of America’s great outdoors. He led the fight to

protect the integrity of the National Park Service’s management policies and worked to protect signature landscapes in

Colorado, including authorizing legislation that designated

Rocky Mountain National Park as wilderness and that established the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area.

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From 1999 to 2004, KEN SALAZAR served as Colorado’s

36th attorney general. He won statewide elections in 1998

and 2002. He chaired the Conference of Western Attorneys

General and received the Profiles in Courage Award from his

fellow State attorneys general for his dedication to preserving and promoting the rule of law.

As Colorado’s attorney general, KEN SALAZAR led efforts to

make communities safer, fight crime, strengthen the State’s

sex offender laws, address youth and family violence, enhance and enforce Colorado’s consumer protection laws, combat fraud against the elderly, and protect Colorado’s environment. He established the first-ever Colorado Attorney General Fugitive Prosecutions Unit to apprehend and prosecute

fugitive murderers, the first-ever Attorney General Gang

Prosecution Unit, and an environmental crimes unit.

From 1987 to 1994 KEN SALAZAR served in the Cabinet of

Governor Roy Romer as chief legal counsel and executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources,

where he crafted reforms for oil, mining, and gas operations

to better protect the environment and the public. He fought

to uphold Colorado’s interstate water compacts, created the

Youth in Natural Resources Program to educate thousands

of young people about Colorado’s natural resources, and authored the Colorado constitutional amendment creating

Great Outdoors Colorado. He served as the first chairman of

that movement, helping make it one of the most successful

land conservation efforts in the United States.

KEN SALAZAR’s family settled in the American West before

the United States was a country. After settling in New Mexico four centuries ago, his family planted roots in Colorado’s

San Luis Valley, where they have farmed and ranched the

same land for five generations. Raised on a remote ranch

without electricity or telephone, KEN SALAZAR learned the

values of hard work, family, and faith. Thanks to his parents’ lessons, he and his seven brothers and sisters all became first-generation college graduates.

A farmer for more than 30 years, KEN SALAZAR was a

partner with his family in El Rancho Salazar. He and his

wife have owned and operated small businesses, including a

Dairy Queen and radio stations in Pueblo and Denver.

KEN SALAZAR worked for 11 years as a water and environmental lawyer with some of the top firms in the West. During his time in the private sector and as Colorado’s attorney

general, KEN SALAZAR worked on cases from the trial courts

to the Colorado and U.S. Supreme Courts.

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He received a political science degree from Colorado College in 1977, and graduated with a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1981. He also received honorary doctorates of law from Colorado College in 1993 and the University of Denver in 1999. KEN SALAZAR and his wife, Hope,

have two daughters, Melinda and Andrea, and one granddaughter, Mireya.

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Letter of Resignation

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

U.S. SENATE,

Washington, DC, January 20, 2009.

Hon. JOE BIDEN,

Vice President of the United States, President of the Senate,

U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC.

DEAR VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: I hereby resign as United States Senator

for the State of Colorado immediately, in order to undertake the responsibilities of United States Secretary of the Interior. Enclosed is a letter to the

Governor of Colorado concerning the same.

Sincerely,

KEN SALAZAR,

U.S. Senator.

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Farewell to the Senate

Friday, January 16, 2009

Mr. SALAZAR. Mr. President, I thank the Chair, the distinguished Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Whitehouse). I

thank my great friend the majority leader, Senator Reid, for

his inspiration and for his leadership of this body and his

love for this Nation. I think our journey together in many

ways has been a similar journey because if you think about

a man from Searchlight, NV, raised in the house and under

the circumstances in which he was raised, working in the

mines and being essentially part of the poorest part of Nevada, and yet today he is serving in the Senate as majority

leader, that is a pathway that illustrates the opportunity

and promise of America.

For his support and his leadership, I will be forever grateful, and for the support from his family, Landra and Rory

and all of his children as well. I admire him and admire

them. I appreciate the comments that were so heartfelt from

him, and I appreciate the comments as well from Senator

McConnell.

I thank my colleagues who are here this morning. I know

almost everybody took off last night, so the Chamber is not

exactly full this morning, but I see both Democrats and Republicans who came to hear me say the last few words I will

say from this desk in the U.S. Senate.

Let me start out first by giving tribute to my family. My

wonderful wife Hope, and my daughter Melinda, who is at

Stanford, my daughter Andrea and my granddaughter who

are in Denver today watching us on the Senate floor truly

are the bedrock of my life. Without them I would not be

here, and without them I would not have traveled the 64

counties of my great State of Colorado probably 20 times in

the last 10 years because they were always there at my side

since they were little, holding up balloons and walking parades and doing all the rest of the things it takes to become

part of an elected office in such a large geographic area of

Colorado. So today I say thank you, and I love you all very

much.

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I wish to pay tribute as well to my father Henry. As Senator Reid described his history, it is a very true history. He

was born into poverty and lived through a lot of sacrifice but

always remembered the two most important things in his

life, as my brother Congressman Salazar often says, ‘‘No. 1,

family; and No. 2, love for country.’’ I think those two values

guided him to achieve what he still at the end of his life considered to be his greatest success, and that is that all eight

of his children became first-generation college graduates. So

I will be forever proud of my father Henry who taught me

so many things about life.

Within his family, as well as within my mother’s family,

if you look at the genealogy, which I will insert for the

Record, we started back with Juan de Salazar who was born

in 1520 and Juan de Salazar born in 1555, who became one

of the original founders of the city of Santa Fe—the city of

holy faith—NM, and then Jose ́ Bernardo de Salazar. It goes

on to the point where I am a 12th-generation son of the

southwest of New Mexico and Colorado. It is a history of

which I am very proud. It is a history that I hope is not forgotten. It is a history that for a long time was essentially

shoved beneath the dust and was not given the illumination

of its reality. I hope in some small part my role here in the

Senate has been to give credence as well as to celebrate that

history that makes us such a wonderful and diverse America. So I appreciate everything I received from my father’s

side. Yes, he was a proud soldier in World War II. He was

a tough master as we grew up. He made us understand the

importance of hard work. He had a strong sense of pride, a

strong sense of community and giving back, and a strong

sense of love for his family.

My mother Emma likewise in so many ways was a strong

spiritual person whom I still today call Saint Emma. I call

her Saint Emma because nothing can even shake her from

her roots. She is who she is. She has a great faith. She is

not afraid to live or die. I remember many times in my life,

including the death of my oldest brother Leandro, my mother

was the one who held the family together after a tragic accident on our ranch back in 1992. To her selfless—completely

selfless—love which she has taught the world and has taught

my family, I thank her from the bottom of my heart.

I often have asked my mother: ‘‘Is there a single person in

the world you do not like, or is there a single person in the

world you hate?’’ My mother will think about it for a minute,

and she will say, ‘‘No.’’ She says, ‘‘I love everybody.’’ Just as

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she loves everybody, everybody loves her. So I thank her for

her faith and all that she has taught us.

To my brothers and sisters—there are seven of us still left.

My oldest brother Leandro, who passed away, taught us a lot

about history and about the culture of our community. I remember his days working with Ce ́sar Chavez and the United

Farm Workers and then coming back to the ranch and farming and working with us for so long. He is and always will

be my hero. I miss him.

To all the rest of my brothers and to my sisters, they have

all been the bedrock also of my successes. Today, here on the

floor of the Senate, as I give my farewell address, I have the

honor of being joined by Congressman John Salazar, who is

a Congressman for the Third Congressional District which

covers about 65 percent of the State of Colorado. Congressman Salazar, in his own way, is a personification of many

things that my family stands for. If you look at his history

and his profile, he is a farmer, he is a soldier and veteran,

he is a businessman. He knows issues such as water. He

knows and has taught me so much. As he and I have grown

up together, being here in Washington with him has been

one of the highlights of my entire life.

I wish to also thank all of my colleagues here, and I will

say just a few specific words about them in a few minutes.

In early February, the Senate selects a Member to perform

its oldest nonlegislative tradition, the reader of George

Washington’s Farewell Address on the floor of the Senate. In

2006, Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, gave me the

honor of doing that reading. I think Washington’s famous

words are important for us to remember at this time of

transformation in America. In his farewell to public life in

1796, Washington warned us of the dangers of partisanship,

of geographic sectionalism, and the politics of division. Washington said:

We are one Nation. With slight shades of differences you have the same

religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common

cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels and joint efforts of common dangers,

sufferings, and successes.

Washington’s Farewell Address is a message to be reborn

today. In this moment, in this time, with the inauguration

next Tuesday, with this body in the Senate and in the House

of Representatives, there is a new hope, with a growing

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coming the one Nation the first President of the United

States of America imagined.

Our next President, Barack Obama, embodies this historic

change. He is asking us not to think of ourselves first as Red

States and Blue States, but as Americans first, with obligations of service to one another. We can solve our problems,

no matter how difficult they are. We can reach the horizon

of human possibilities no matter how difficult it might seem,

but in order to do that, we must all work together. It is in

this spirit of collaboration—of Nation before party, of compromise, of results-driven government—that Americans believe we can get it done this time.

I owe a debt of gratitude to all of you in this Chamber who

have guided me in our work over the last several years. I

wish to comment specifically just on four or five areas I am

very proud of that we have worked on together in the Senate.

The first is about the forgotten America and the work we

have done together to make sure the rural part of America

that has so often been forgotten is no longer forgotten. When

you look at the United States of America, the fact is, there

are about 3,000 counties. About 1,700 of those counties are

characterized as rural, and in each of those counties, we

have significant unemployment. We have income disparities

of some $10,000 per capita between people who live in those

rural counties and the people who don’t. So it has been important for us to address the issues and needs of rural America. We have done that in some significant ways. The passage of the farm bill, which we ultimately had to pass out

of this Senate, I think, on three or four different occasions

during the last year, was a culmination of that promise to

the forgotten America.

I wish to thank Senator Reid for making sure we kept our

feet to the fire to get that bill done. I wish to thank the people who were involved in that legislation, including the

chairman of the committee, Senator Tom Harkin; our ranking member, the great Senator from Georgia, Saxby

Chambliss; as well as Kent Conrad and others who were involved in that historic effort, including all of the members of

the Agriculture Committee.

Second is the creation of a new energy frontier. There were

many of us, including some of us who are on the Senate floor

this morning, who set about some 4 years ago with a vision

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rity and economic opportunity at home and environmental

security for our planet; and that we could set America free

from our addiction to foreign oil. Under the leadership of

Senator Bingaman from New Mexico as chairman of the

committee, and the work of Senator Pete Domenici and other

members of the Senate Energy Committee, I believe we have

taken some steps in that direction which are very significant.

There is much more we must do, and we are absolutely committed to making sure we take the moonshot to energy independence in the years ahead. Of this I am confident: this

time we will not fail. We cannot afford to fail in the energy

imperative for our Nation.

Third, I thank all of my colleagues with whom I have

worked on the Senate Energy Committee. I also wish to

thank every Member of this Chamber who has worked to

make sure America’s defenses remain strong and that we

protect America at home through homeland security efforts

and the implementation and recommendations of the 9/11

Commission, and the efforts we have worked on together in

this Chamber to give the United States of America a new direction with respect to the war in Iraq.

It is because of the debates that have taken place in this

Chamber that today we are on a new pathway and new plan

in Iraq. As divisive as those debates have been, I am confident that the people who worked on that issue had the best

interests of the United States of America in mind.

It is in that vein that I enjoyed very much the work I did

with many Senate Democrats and Republicans in trying to

craft the legislation that implemented the recommendations

of the Iraq Study Group. Sixteen Members of the Senate

joined us in that legislation. Because that legislation really

created the roadmap for where we are in Iraq today, I am

pleased with the work I was able to do in that effort.

I will never forget the fact that Senator Levin, Senator

Warner, and Senator Reid were among the first people who

took me to that place in the Middle East, places I had never

traveled to before, right into Baghdad, to places around that

country. It was information I gleaned from those trips that

helped me participate in one of the debates of our time that

characterizes the last 4 or 5 years in America.

Fourth, I wish to make a quick comment about health

care. There are many people who have worked on this issue

over time. I do think that what we were able to do with the

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crats can come together. When I see an Orrin Hatch and a

Max Baucus working together to move forward with legislation that is so enormously important for the children of

America, it is the right step for us as we try to deal with this

enormous domestic problem that faces all of us. And there

have been so many people who have been involved in those

efforts.

Fifth, and finally, I have spent a lot of time in this Chamber at this desk and my other desk working on the issue of

immigration. It is an issue which, frankly, still continues to

call out in a very clarion and clear voice that we must get

to a resolution with respect to this issue because it affects

so much. It affects our national security, it affects whether

we really are a Nation of laws, and it affects the reality of

12 million people who live in the shadows of America today.

I am hopeful that with President Obama’s leadership, the

leadership of the Senate, and the leadership of the House of

Representatives, Republicans and Democrats coming together, this is an issue we will finally resolve in the year

ahead.

As I conclude, I want to make one more tribute to Senator

Harry Reid. We both are men of faith, and we often share

our faith together. He encouraged me, along with Senator

Mark Pryor, to be a part of the Wednesday Prayer Breakfast

in the Senate. I was proud to chair that breakfast with Mark

Pryor over the last several years and with my colleague, Senator Mike Enzi.

I appreciate the fact that among those of us who attended

that Prayer Breakfast, I am certain that among the 100

Members of the Senate, there is a great common sense that

the possibilities of humanity are somehow achievable to all

of us, that it is we as human beings who somehow stand in

the way of finding what those human possibilities are for all

of humanity.

I think back to a story some of you have heard of my

grandmother who lost five of her eight children before those

children reached the age of 5 years old. I always ask myself:

What is it that kept her going? At the end of the day, my

answer to my question has been that what kept her going

was the fact that she had a faith in the future, that somehow

around the corner, in a future she could not see, the world

would be much better for her children and for her grandchildren. For sure she could not have seen that the eight surviving children of her only son would all graduate from high

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come a U.S. Senator, another a Member of the U.S. House

of Representatives. What she could see was the world would

be better for humanity. It is a common bond for Members of

this august, wonderful Chamber of the U.S. Senate.

As I close, I want to share the prayer that I have shared

with Senator Reid and many of my colleagues in this Chamber before. It is a prayer that my brother, Leandro, the oldest in the family, learned when he worked with Ce ́sar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers of America. In

many ways, I believe this prayer embodies what we do in

public service.

The prayer is as follows:

Show me the suffering of the most miserable;

So I will know my people’s plight.

Free me to pray for others;

For you are present in every person.

Help me take responsibility for my own life;

So that I can be free at last.

Grant me courage to serve others;

For in service there is true life.

Give me honesty and patience;

So that the Spirit will be alive among us.

Let the Spirit flourish and grow;

So that we will never tire of the struggle.

Let us remember those who have died for justice;

For they have given us life.

Help us love even those who hate us;

So we can change the world.

Mr. President, one thing I forgot to say. The 5 million people of the State of Colorado have given me a great honor to

serve as their attorney general and to serve on their behalf.

I will submit for the Record some of the work we have done

in the representation of all of the 5 million people of the

State of Colorado. No matter where they were from, no matter what their economic circumstance, they knew we were

working on their behalf.

I am elated that Senator Mark Udall has joined us in the

Senate because I am absolutely confident he will become one

of the stellar Senators of this body.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in

the Record the genealogy chart of my family and a list of the

wonderful DC and Colorado staff.

There being no objection, the material was ordered to be

printed in the Record, as follows:

DESCENDANTS OF CAPITAN JUAN DE SALAZAR

Juan de Salazar, Conquistador, born 1520, became a Noble in 1543.

Juan de Salazar, Conquistador and founder of Santa Fe, born 1559.

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Jose ́ Bernardo de Salazar, born 1595.

Francisco de Salazar, born 1630.

Jose ́ Juan de Salazar, born 1670.

Enrique de Salazar, born 1700.

Demetrio de Salazar, born 1750.

Julia ́n de Salazar, born 1780; Maria de las Mercedes de Sandoval.

Francisco Este ́ban de Salazar y de Sandoval, born 1800; Maria del Carmen Valdez.

Eusebio Salazar, born March 9, 1849; Amade Garcia, born 1859.

Juan Bautista Salazar, born June 24, 1894; Antonia Cantu, born 1884.

Henry S. Salazar, born March 10, 1916; Emma M. Montoya, born April

23, 1922.

Leandro, LeRoy, John, KEN, Elaine, Margaret, Elliott, and June.

DC STAFF

Black, Steve, Leg Counsel; Dunham, Ian, Leg Aide; Ibarra, Beatriz, Leg

Counsel; Johnson, Aya, Leg Aide; Koehler, Jim, Leg Asst; Lane, Jeff, Chief

of Staff; Leahy, Andrew, Leg Aide; Lee-Ashley, Matt, Communications Dir;

Leslie, Grant, Leg Dir; Mitchell, Sam, Leg Asst; Nieters Su, Piper, Leg

Counsel; Olsen, Tommy, Deputy Press Sec; Padilla, Joan, Scheduler;

Paladino, Emily, Leg Asst; Perko, Mary, Administrative Dir; Phillips, Jeffrey, Spec Asst for Const Ser; Plumb, John, Leg Asst; Reis, Ariane, Leg

Aide; Scott, Denise, Spec Asst for Const Ser; Squarrell, Elena, Asst Scheduler; Terry, Anne, Systems Admin; Ulrich, Elaine, Leg Fellow.

COLORADO STAFF

Amodeo, Michael, Press Secretary; Bobicki, Charlotte, Regional Rep/Ala;

Brown, Ann, Regional Dir/Dur; Giron, Angela, Regional Rep/CS; Corwin,

Meg, Regional Dir/FtC; Fagan, Renny, State Dir; Fetcher, Jay, Regional

Rep/GJ; Gardner, Dwight, Regional Dir/PU; Joslyn, Angela, Regional Rep/

CS; Kareus, Trudy, Regional Dir/GJ; Kessler, Zane, Community Liaison/

Den; Lane, Ken, Senior Counsel; McGraw, Mac, Regional Rep/FtM; See,

Randy, Regional Rep/GJ; Milliner, Bennie, Community Liaison/Den; Montoya, Pres, replacemn Regional Rep/FtC; Oatman-Gardner, Annie, Regional

Dir/CS; Otero, Jerry, Regional Rep/GJ; Pacheco, Romaine, Statewide Dir/

Constit Ser; Schwantes, Lisa, Regional Rep/DU; Serenil, Eva, Community

Liaison/Den; Sepulveda, Catherine, Staff Asst/CS; Sweeney, Betty, Community Liaison/Den; Tesky, Jonathan, Staff Asst/Den; Wallick, Velina, Scheduler/Den.

Mr. SALAZAR. Mr. President, I thank my wonderful staff,

many of whom are here today, some of whom are watching

back in Colorado, for having made this possible. Without

their great effort, frankly, we would not be able to do what

we have done. I thank them.

I thank my good friend, the Presiding Officer. I look forward to our continuing to work together.

I yield the floor.

(Applause, Senators rising.)

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Proceedings in the Senate

FRIDAY, January 16, 2009

Mr. REID. Mr. President, in a few minutes, Senator

SALAZAR will rise to give his final speech on the floor of the

Senate. Parting is with such sweet sorrow. I have such great

respect for this man we call KEN SALAZAR.

I spoke yesterday regarding Senator Biden, who will become Vice President of the United States next Tuesday. I

also spoke about Senator Clinton who, after her confirmation, will become Secretary of State. The accomplishments of

Senators Biden and Clinton are well known—two great

Americans. The accomplishments and life of KEN SALAZAR

are less known but no less remarkable; in fact, in most instances more remarkable.

KENNETH LEE SALAZAR is a 5th-generation Coloradan and

a 12th-generation American. His family is a remarkable

story about what America is all about. His family settled in

New Mexico 400 years ago and moved to Colorado’s San Luis

Valley in the middle of the 19th century, claiming some of

the region’s first water rights.

KEN SALAZAR grew up farming and ranching the same Colorado land his ancestors had for hundreds of years. This is

real rural America, 300 miles from Denver. The ranch did

not have electricity until 1982—no telephone, no television.

Senator SALAZAR and his seven brothers and sisters were

born to two American patriots. His mom Emma traveled to

Washington by herself as a 19-year-old girl to do her thing

in World War II. She went to work in the War Department

here in Washington, DC, while KEN’s father Henry joined

the military and became a staff sergeant. He was so proud

of that service in the military that he asked, when he passed

away, to be buried in his staff sergeant uniform; his family

complied with that.

Although Emma and Henry were not educated in the true

sense of the word by having gone to colleges and universities, their love of education was so strong that all eight of

the Salazar children have college educations, and some such

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as KEN, of course, have gone on to graduate from law school

and other such things.

KEN SALAZAR farmed for more than 30 years; and he and

his lovely wife Hope—who is such a nice, strong person—

owned a number of businesses in Colorado. As I recall, I

think one of them was a Dairy Queen and I think maybe a

couple of radio stations.

I had the good fortune of traveling to South America with

Hope and KEN, and it was a remarkable trip—Bolivia, Peru,

Machu Picchu. It was a wonderful trip, something I will always remember.

Later, I practiced water and environmental law to protect

the health of Coloradans and the beauty of that State—and

anyone who has ever been to Colorado knows it is one of the

great national treasures we have in our country. It is a beautiful State. But I think what I have learned about the

Salazars, and KEN especially, is that if you look at their family, you learn a lot about them. They are a great American

family.

When KEN decided to run for the Colorado State attorney

general’s office, his father Henry was with him all the time.

In fact, he had a pickup truck, and he traveled the State

with his son. They visited all 64 counties in Colorado. Senator SALAZAR did not do that just once, he has done it many

times.

Henry Salazar was not alive long enough to see KEN elected to the Senate, but I can say with certainty that as proud

as he was of his son already, his pride would overflow for the

Senator who is going to become now a member of President

Obama’s Cabinet.

That election in 2004 was dramatic. All over the country,

we Democrats were hoping to pick up seats. We lost just

about everything, except Illinois and Colorado. Two great

Senators, two great Americans were elected that year as

Democrats: Barack Obama and KEN SALAZAR.

KEN’s mother Emma, who is now almost 88 years old, is

surely just as proud as her husband Henry was of her son,

who will now serve this country as a Cabinet secretary.

Senator SALAZAR’s election, as I have indicated, was one of

the few bright spots of 2004, a year that saw us defeated in

the Presidential election and all the close congressional

races.

Expectations were high for the new Senator from Colorado,

and KEN SALAZAR met and exceeded every one of the expectations. While in the Senate, Senator SALAZAR has been a

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champion for a new defense and foreign policy that keeps us

safe, restores our authority in the world, and honors the courageous service of our men and women in uniform. He has

helped lead the fight for affordable health care, and to help

broaden the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. He

serves on the Senate Energy Committee, Finance Committee, and Agriculture Committee, and these are tremendous assignments that he received as a young Senator.

He has done so well as a Senator in so many different capacities: as an advocate for clean, affordable, and renewable

energy and for protecting our environment and natural resources.

Coloradans have rightly come to love KEN SALAZAR. He is

now going to bring this remarkable experience and wisdom,

as he leaves the Senate, upon confirmation, to begin a new

adventure as President Obama’s Secretary of the Interior.

All of us feel his time in the Senate is far too short, but

I know his upcoming service to our Nation will in no way

take away from the legacy he has left in the Senate. After

having served as a Cabinet officer, it will be enhanced. His

new role will enhance that.

Senator SALAZAR has a keen understanding of life and of

the environmental concerns and needs of Western States

such as Colorado and Nevada. He will be a great advocate

for the people of both our States and the whole West and our

country.

Barack Obama’s Cabinet selections have been one of his

most approved adventures in government in a long time: Republicans, Democrats, Independents. I think his appointments to the Cabinet have been so significant. None has

been more significant than KEN SALAZAR. To take this great

Senator and convince him to be a Cabinet officer says it all.

It shows how remarkable both Barack Obama and KEN

SALAZAR are; classmates who came here together in 2004.

The most important attribute I have found about KEN

SALAZAR, this relatively new Senator, was his ability to be a

peacemaker, to reach out and bring us together. He was new

here when we were going through the battle dealing with the

nuclear option. But he stepped right in, understood what our

Constitution was all about, why it was so important that

matter be settled, and he was one of the leading advocates

of working that out, which he did.

Immigration is a difficult issue. Who, of course, was the

leader on that? KEN SALAZAR. Because he wanted a program

that was comprehensive and fair to all sides.

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As everyone knows, we had a situation with Senator

Lieberman that was unique, and it needed to be resolved.

Who did that? KEN SALAZAR. KEN SALAZAR wrote in hand

the resolution. He is the one who talked to Democrats and

Republicans, recognizing we were headed in the right direction.

So he is a peacemaker, not bound by labels but only by his

own integrity. Much of that integrity and moral grounding

comes from his faith, which I have heard him discuss in personal conversations with me, downstairs every Wednesday

with our Prayer Breakfast, and other places.

I have seen tears well up in his eyes as he talks about the

beautiful mountains that surround his home in southern Colorado.

KEN tells the story of those mountains being named by a

young priest who was dying. He wakes up delirious, with

death close at hand, and looks out at those beautiful mountains, 14,000 foot mountain peaks, to see the Sun coming

through those mountains. To the priest, they looked like the

blood of Christ, and they were named ‘‘Sangre de Cristo,’’ the

Blood of Christ, Mountains.

Senator SALAZAR, your abiding faith, your moral grounding, your lifelong love of our country, and your family are

treasures that I will never forget, and that will serve you

well in years to come. Your colleagues are proud of you,

proud of your accomplishments, grateful for your service, and

excited for the problems you will solve and the progress you

will make for all Americans.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Republican

leader is recognized.

Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I wanted to come out

and join my good friend, the majority leader, in congratulating the Senator from Colorado upon his selection as Secretary of the Interior, but I must say I am kind of sorry to

see it.

The first thing I said to Senator SALAZAR is, ‘‘Say it isn’t

so.’’ I hated to see him leave the Senate. Even though he has

been here a relatively short time, he has made an enormous

number of friends, I think an incredible contribution to the

institution and, of course, to his State as well. I think his

passion for the issues the Interior Department deals with

overcame what I would have hoped he would have concluded

in the end was the right decision, which was to say no to the

new President and stay in the Senate.

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We hate to see him leave. We think he has been an extraordinarily outstanding and fine Member of this body. I

wanted to join with the majority leader and say how much

we appreciate his service and how much all of us look forward to continuing to work with him in the coming years in

his new and important responsibility as Secretary of the Interior.

I yield the floor.

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise simply to say a

few words of personal tribute to our dear friend, the distinguished Senator from Colorado, who has just spoken so beautifully.

We are going to miss this man. He has only been here 4

years, but he has made an extraordinary contribution to the

Senate and to our country. I first got to know KEN SALAZAR

in 2000 when I had the honor to be the Vice Presidential

candidate for the Democratic Party and went to Colorado. I

could see at the first meeting at which I met him—I had an

instantaneous reaction to him—that this was a person of

strength, of warmth, of character, of purpose. Every day I

have known Senator SALAZAR since then has only deepened

those feelings about him. You can feel all his strength and

all of his purpose and all of his faith and all of his passion

and all of his humility as you listen to this final statement

he just made on the Senate floor.

I love the fact that one of the last items Senator SALAZAR

asked was unanimous consent to print in the Record his family genealogy because it speaks not only to his extraordinary

history and greatness but to the greatness of our country.

It is, obviously, a fact that the Hispanic-American population has grown and is growing significantly in our country.

I have been with KEN on a few occasions, I say to Senator

Reid, when people have said, ‘‘You are Mexican-American.

When did your family come to this country?’’ And they are

expecting to hear 20 years ago, 50 years ago, maybe 90 years

ago. And KEN will say with that quiet strength: ‘‘My family

came here in the 16th century.’’ The 16th century, before the

Pilgrims came. It reminds us of a history which, as Senator

SALAZAR said, was for a long time suppressed. But the Hispanic, Mexican-American contribution to America is long, it

is deep, it is proud, it is strong, and it will continue to grow.

Senator SALAZAR was raised in a tradition, like so many

of us, where we were told by our parents that to be a good

American, you don’t have to assimilate or homogenize. You

contribute to our country by being who you are and what you

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are. In the diversity of this great country, we gain more

strength. That has certainly been true of the MexicanAmerican community, and it is particularly true of this great

American.

Senator SALAZAR talked about his faith, about his family,

about the love of country he learned from his parents. This

man is, in so many ways, the quintessential American. He

brings this unique cultural heritage of his roots, family roots,

way back in Mexico, but he combines those with the values

we associate with the American West, the love of the land,

individualism, a sense of honor, a sense of confidence that

has become so much a part of the American character. And

he added to that, which is where it all begins, as he believes

and I believe and most of us believe, with faith, that we are

here for a purpose, that our existence here is not an accident, and that we have a series of values that come from our

faith which are expressed in the founding American documents and lead us forward.

Senator SALAZAR served our Nation brilliantly in the 4

years he has been in the Senate. What a thrill to have met

KEN in 2000 and to have played some small part in having

him come here and then to have him as a colleague—as Senator Reid said so well, to watch the role he has played. He

is a doer. He did not come to make speeches. He makes a

very good speech, as we just heard. He came to get things

done for the people of Colorado and for the people of America, and he has done that over and over again.

In the so-called nuclear option, I always viewed it as the

integrity of the Supreme Court selection process. Senator

Reid referred to my own recent situation. Senator SALAZAR

came forward, a dear friend, incredible across the entire Senate—in this case, the Senate Democratic caucus—and just on

my behalf and on behalf of what he thought was right, created a path forward that made me feel great—I can say that

personally—but I hope also and I believe facilitated a path

forward and reconciliation within the Democratic caucus. Obviously, it would not have happened without Senator Reid.

That was extremely constructive.

It was a tough decision for Senator SALAZAR to leave the

Senate. It is a tough one for us to see him go because he is

unique here. But he has responded to the call to serve our

country. He will play an extraordinarily important role as a

true American environmentalist, a lover of the land, in preserving all that the Interior Department oversees that is

America’s great natural gift from God—the land. He will

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also, in a very thoughtful way, play a central role in one of

the most significant transformations American Government

has made in a long time, which is to turn us toward energy

independence and a cleaner, more reliable source of American energy.

I wish him well. The only comfort in seeing him leave the

Senate is that he is only going down the street a bit. We

know he will be here to work with us.

I cannot think of a better way to end this simple tribute

to a dear friend and a great American than to say that over

the years we have come to know each other, both greeted

each other and at moments of challenge said a particular two

words to one another and then said goodbye to each other

with these two words in which we have joined our respective

ethnic heritages. And the two words that I say to you, dear

friend, fellow colleague, as you leave the Senate to serve our

country as Secretary of the Interior, and with my confidence

that will not be the end of your service to our country but

will go on, in my opinion, higher and higher, those two words

bringing our two ethnic heritages together are Viva

chutzpah. God bless you.

I yield the floor.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from

Rhode Island is recognized.

Mr. REED. Mr. President, I, too, rise to commend and

thank the Senator from Colorado for his extraordinary service to the Senate, to the people of Colorado, and to the

United States of America. He is a consummate gentleman.

He brought to this Chamber great judgment and great passion to provide opportunity for all our citizens. He also

brought the distinctive values of his State of Colorado—a

rough sense of individuality, coupled with a commitment to

building community; not just an isolated group of people but

a community of citizens—and these values have been extraordinarily important to us. His friendship and his leadership have been extraordinarily important to all of us.

I see the Presiding Officer (Mr. Whitehouse) is my colleague and friend from Rhode Island, and as he pointed out

a few days ago, they were both attorneys general together:

Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island, of course, and Senator

SALAZAR for the State of Colorado. But we were all together

in Rhode Island, and I was reflecting, KEN, I don’t know

what the Department of the Interior has to do with Rhode

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Island. OK, the Outer Continental Shelf. There is a reason

for my tribute.

But we were there together at an event, and Senator Pell,

our dear colleague, came. He was frail and ailing, but immediately Senator SALAZAR rushed over to him to say, ‘‘Thank

you, Senator Pell.’’ Because as he told us, the fact is he and

his brother, now in the Congress, and other family members

were able to go to college because of the Pell grant. That

spirit of opportunity, of giving Americans a chance, and then

standing back and letting them do remarkable things, embodied the Pell grant and so many other programs. That is

what not only prepared you for the Senate but gave you the

vision to do all you have done to help your constituents and

the people of this country to see the opportunity which is

America.

You and your family have been in Colorado for five generations. I feel like a recent arrival. My folks got here from Ireland in 1850. So from a new American to an old established

family: Thank you for your service; thank you for your

friendship. Good luck, Mr. Secretary.

I yield the floor.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from

Arkansas.

Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, I didn’t intend to say anything

about our friend, KEN SALAZAR, today, but in listening to his

remarks and knowing the contribution he has made around

here in 4 short years, I couldn’t resist. I am sure the Presiding Officer, if he wasn’t presiding, would come down and

do the same thing.

I first met Senator SALAZAR before he was a Senator; in

fact, as we were getting sworn in as attorneys general together, probably in December 1998, if I remember correctly.

We both had been elected to our offices of attorney general

in November 1998, and we went to a National Association of

Attorneys General meeting. We immediately bonded. It was

very clear and very evident to everyone there that he had

the right stuff to be a great attorney general. It turned out

he was a great attorney general for the State of Colorado.

I encouraged him to come to the Senate when Senator

Campbell announced his retirement, and I think it was probably the best thing I have done since I have been in the Senate was to try to get KEN SALAZAR to come here.

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visioned the Senate should work, they had in mind a person

such as KEN SALAZAR to be in this body. They probably

couldn’t even imagine that Colorado would become a State.

I mean, they probably couldn’t even fathom the way this

country would grow and change over the decades and centuries. But I think when they set up the Senate, they wanted

people with intelligence, work ethic, character, and people

who could put their personal views aside for the greater

good. That is what we have in KEN SALAZAR. He is all those

things.

He has been a Senator’s Senator for the last 4 years he

has been in Washington. I know his brother John is here. I

know John is very proud of him, and I know the State of Colorado is very proud of the work he has done. And they

should be because there is a lot to be proud about with Senator KEN SALAZAR.

I know all 100 of us couldn’t be here today. We have some

committee hearings going on, and we also have the inauguration coming Tuesday, so people are kind of bracing

themselves and preparing for all of that. But if all 100 were

here, I think you would have 99 people stand up and basically say what some of us have already said; that he has

been an extraordinary Senator, an extraordinary person, and

he has had a great impact in his short time in the Senate.

One last thing, on a personal note. One of the things I love

about KEN SALAZAR as a person is his deep and very serious

faith. I asked him to come in and chair the Senate Prayer

Breakfast, which he took to new heights. He expanded the

number of people who were coming to that. He was great. He

chaired the National Prayer Breakfast for a year, and I

think they probably set a record that year for attendance

and in the quality of the speakers they had that year. So he

has had not just a political and governmental influence but

an even broader and deeper influence.

Senator SALAZAR, we are going to miss you very much. We

all love you, and we all know you are going to do great

things at Interior. We know there are a lot of challenges

America is facing right now, but we know you are part of the

solution. God has called you to be where you are going right

now. So thank you for your service, and we are going to

dearly miss you in this body.

I yield the floor.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Pryor). The Senator from

Rhode Island.

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Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, may I, first, thank you

for your courtesy in volunteering to take over the duties of

Presiding Officer for a moment so I could be relieved of those

duties and come to my desk and have the chance to say

something about a very dear friend whom we will miss enormously. I know we have something very important happening in a few minutes, so I will speak very briefly, but I

don’t want to let this opportunity pass.

We had an energetic group of freshmen Senators come in

2 years ago, and we found KEN was feeling kind of lonely because his class had been sort of a bit smaller than ours. So

we sort of adopted him into our group. He has been kind of

a big brother to all of us. I have had the privilege of knowing

him as an attorney general, and I will not belabor the point,

but what people have said about him as a peacemaker, about

him as a friend, and about him as somebody who cares deeply about the duty of public service, I can attest to first hand

from many years of experience.

So I will only say we will miss you very deeply. We are

enormously confident in you. The Department of the Interior

is lucky to have you, President-elect Obama is fortunate to

have you join his Cabinet, and we wish you Godspeed, my

friend.

I yield the floor.

The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from

Minnesota is recognized.

Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I am so honored to be

here with my friend, KEN SALAZAR. When I think about KEN

SALAZAR, I think about KEN SALAZAR in Colorado in his

beautiful mountains, and I think of the idea of him going to

be the head of the Department of the Interior is something

that is a gift to this country.

I wish to tell one story about KEN. He and I were in Colorado together, out there for Barack Obama, and they had a

big RV with the President-elect’s picture on it. KEN SALAZAR

is the only Senator who would insist on driving the RV on

his own. He did it in style, with his big cowboy hat on. There

we were, in the middle of the mountains on this winding

road, when all of a sudden we see flashing lights behind us.

Sure enough, we were being pulled over. There were 20 people in this RV and a caravan of media behind us. KEN was

as calm as he could be. He pulled over to the side of the

road, the deputy comes up—with his big cowboy hat on—and

KEN rolls down the window and says, ‘‘Can I help you?’’

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Of course, we think he is getting a ticket for speeding, and

he was ready to accept whatever this was. But the deputy

says, ‘‘Sir, your license tabs are in the wrong corner.’’

And so KEN said, ‘‘Oh, so sorry.’’ And he gets out with this

deputy looking on and with the caravan of media behind

with all the cameras, and a press guy yelling, ‘‘This is off the

record.’’

So KEN’s picture is there in the Denver Post trying to

change his license tabs around the corners.

But it was KEN SALAZAR who wanted to have that moment

and that freedom of driving through the mountains of Colorado at whatever the cost, and he will be a true tribute to

his home State and to this country.

I am taking over the Prayer Breakfast from KEN, and I

have seen first hand his great faith in God but also the faith

he has in his family, whom I see here, and the people of this

country. We are all very lucky to have him, though we will

miss him as a mentor and friend in the Senate.

Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. President, I rise today to

urge my colleagues to strongly support my friend and colleague, Senator KEN SALAZAR, as President-elect Obama’s

choice to lead the Department of the Interior.

For reasons I will explain shortly, I believe this man—a

fifth-generation son of the West whose ancestors settled

Santa Fe before America gained independence—is uniquely

qualified and experienced to lead the U.S. Department of the

Interior.

I am very proud to have served the State of Colorado with

him. He is an outstanding public servant and he will make

an outstanding Secretary of the Interior.

Our colleagues in the Senate are well aware of Senator

SALAZAR’s excellent record of leadership here—he has

worked across the aisle and with diverse stakeholders on

many issues ranging from health care to national security.

As a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, KEN has worked to extend critical renewable energy

tax credits, protect our natural resources and encourage environmentally responsible development of domestic energy

sources. I’ve been proud to work with him on a wide range

of issues, including protection of our public lands and water

resources in Colorado. I’m especially proud of our work together to pass legislation that allowed a lovely older woman,

Betty Dick, to pass her final days in peace on land she treasured at the Rocky Mountain National Park.

KEN, I think Betty would be proud of you today too.

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Even before his time in the Senate, KEN had been a recognized leader in the West. As a farmer and rancher, KEN has

always had a close relationship with the land and with rural

communities. He has spoken eloquently about what he calls

‘‘the forgotten America’’ and he has been a steadfast champion of the land, water, and people of the West.

As the executive director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources, KEN used his unique background and experience to protect the environment and Colorado’s communities,

educate youth about our natural resources, and defend Colorado’s water.

He helped create Great Outdoors Colorado, GOCO, and led

it to become one of the most successful land conservation

programs in the country.

While serving as Colorado’s attorney general, KEN worked

to make our communities safer and address gang violence.

He also led efforts to preserve open space during his two

terms as attorney general, where he was well known as a

champion of the natural environment.

KEN will bring his rural values—hard work, honesty, and

integrity—to the Department of Interior and help address

the many challenges facing this Department. From addressing Interior’s ethical lapses to tackling our country’s lack of

transmission infrastructure, KEN will work hard to put the

Department of the Interior back on the right track.

I would be remiss if I did not mention Senator SALAZAR’s

family and, in particular, his mother, Emma. Like her sons,

she is a remarkable Coloradan. I had the opportunity to visit

her at the Salazar ranch, Los Rincones, last year.

If her son, KEN, demonstrates the same indomitable spirit,

strength of character, and wisdom of his mother—and I believe he will, he should be an outstanding Secretary of the

Interior.

I urge my colleagues to swiftly confirm Senator SALAZAR as

the Secretary of the Interior.

I yield the floor.

WEDNESDAY, January 21, 2009

Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, I join my colleagues in

thanking KEN SALAZAR for his outstanding service to the

people of Colorado over the last 4 years. It has been a pleasure to work with him on a number of issues; he is extremely

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sonal decency. In particular, he has been one of the Senate’s

leaders when it comes to protecting the rights and freedoms

of the American people as we work to strengthen our national security. I was proud to work with him and a bipartisan coalition of Senators on the SAFE Act to change flawed

provisions of the PATRIOT Act. I also appreciated his critical

support of the NSL Reform Act, to address the serious misuse of the FBI’s national security letter authorities. I also

know Senator SALAZAR’s deep commitment to public lands

and energy resources issues, and I think he will be an excellent Secretary of the Interior. Again, I thank him for his

service in this body, and I look forward to continuing to work

with him as he assumes the leadership of the Interior Department.

Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I want to say a word of good

wishes to the senior Senator, albeit very briefly, from Colorado, KEN SALAZAR, as he leaves the Senate to become Secretary of the Interior.

As the son of 12th-generation immigrants, from a family

that farmed Colorado’s San Luis Valley for a century and a

half, no one has a deeper, more powerful connection to what

opportunity means in this country than KEN SALAZAR.

I can remember one of the first times I met Senator

SALAZAR. After we had exchanged greetings, I said to him,

‘‘My family came to America in the 1800s. When did your

family come here?’’

He replied, ‘‘Oh, about 400 years ago.’’

Indeed, it is remarkable to think that the descendant of a

family that settled in the American West almost half a millennium ago will soon be a member of the Cabinet of the

first African-American President of the United States.

Only in America.

Indeed, though his parents, who served their country in

World War II, were not college-educated themselves, they

made sure that KEN, his brother, John, and their six brothers and sisters all graduated from college.

To be sure, Senator SALAZAR is a son of Colorado—a small

businessman who owned ice cream stores and radio stations.

He was a farmer for more than 30 years. Indeed, he practiced water and environmental law. Our colleague’s affection

for the pristine, majestic beauty of the Silver State and its

people is embedded in his DNA.

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ing renewable energy policy, confirming judges, standing up

to abuses at the Justice Department, or championing the

State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

I would add that as we work to expand that latter program

today, his leadership will be missed.

His time in this institution was short, but he has made

those moments count. As Senator SALAZAR seeks to find a

balance between renewables and fossil fuels in the administration’s energy choices, protect our public lands, and restore

integrity to what has been a deeply troubled department, I

am confident that as Interior Secretary he will bring the

same temperament to the job that he has brought to his responsibilities in the Senate, never forgetting those who came

before us—whose sweat and heart remain at the very foundation of this great country of ours.

And so, today, we thank Senator SALAZAR for his service

and wish him well. As he has throughout his life, I have no

doubt he will do a remarkable job for our Nation.

THURSDAY, January 22, 2009

Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, the resignation of the distinguished Senator from Colorado, Mr. SALAZAR, in order to

undertake the duties and responsibilities of Secretary of the

Interior, has left us with a sense of pride and loss. We are

very pleased the Department of the Interior will have the

benefit of his leadership, but we regret that he will not be

able to continue his excellent record of distinguished service

in this body.

It has been a personal pleasure to serve with my friend

from Colorado. His warm personality and his seriousness of

purpose as a Senator have enabled him to serve as a very

successful U.S. Senator.

I wish my friend well as he undertakes his new duties. I

am sure we will see him often in the Senate working with

us as we support him and the Department in carrying out

their important responsibilities.

TUESDAY, January 27, 2009

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I stand before the Senate

today to voice my great respect and hope in the Senator from

Colorado, the Honorable KEN SALAZAR, who has recently left

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this Chamber in order to serve as Secretary of the Interior

under the Obama administration. It is with sorrow that I say

goodbye to my good friend who has served with honor and

dedication since 2005. Although KEN only served for a few

years in the Senate, he has left his mark on us all and will

be remembered for his dedication and service not only to his

country but to Utah’s neighbor the great State of Colorado.

KEN SALAZAR’s personal history is a testament to his character and accomplishments. His family first settled in America just over 400 years ago, 12 generations back. KEN’s parents knew the value of teaching their eight children about

hard work and dedication, and from them he learned the

worth of industry on his family’s ranch growing up. Those

early years on the ranch taught KEN about the importance

of hard work, integrity, and dedication. It is also from these

early experiences that KEN grew to love the beauty of the

natural resources our Nation has to offer.

I am confident that the years of experience Mr. SALAZAR

has worked on environmental policy in the West will serve

him well in his new position as Secretary of the Interior. He

has a deep-rooted passion for clean, renewable, and affordable energy as well as protecting our country’s precious natural resources. I believe he will take quite naturally to his

new role as our Nation’s top public lands manager, and we

will be well served by his sensitivity to those natural treasures we value the most.

In short, KEN SALAZAR has the experience and the passion

required for the role he has taken on as Secretary. I thank

him for his excellent service in the Senate and look forward

to seeing good things from him in the coming years.

WEDNESDAY, December 8, 2010

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that

there be printed as a Senate document a compilation of materials from the Congressional Record in tribute to retiring

Members of the 111th Congress, and that Members have

until Thursday, December 16, to submit such tributes.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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WEDNESDAY, December 15, 2010

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent

that the order for the printing of tributes be modified to provide that Members have until sine die of the 111th Congress,

2d session, to submit tributes and that the order for printing

remain in effect.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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