Senate Proceeding on Oct 2nd, 2008 :: 3:05:41 to 3:12:06
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Ken Salazar: i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. salazar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from

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Speech By: Ken Salazar

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Ken Salazar: colorado. mr. salazar: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. salazar: mr. president, i rise today to pay tribute to my friend and colleague, wayne allard,

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Ken Salazar: the senior senator from colorado. as all of us in in the senate know, senator allard will retire from the senate at the end of this legislative session. senator lard is a coloradan through and through.

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Ken Salazar: raised on ranch in walden, colorado, a very small town in the northwest corner of our state, he found his calling in animal medicine. he found this passion at ft. collins where he received his doctorate

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Ken Salazar: of veterinary medicine. even today he proudly wears his tie as a colorado state ram. he met his future wife joan who was studying microbiology at the time. after graduating, wayne and joan built

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Ken Salazar: the allard animal hospital in loveland together. they made their home there. they had two wonderful daughters, christie and sheryl. living and working in loveland, wayne developed a passion for public

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Ken Salazar: service. he developed a passion for the good that could come from serve in politics. he began his political career in the colorado state senate. there served the people of la ramer county. a strong

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Ken Salazar: believer in preserving the idea of citizen legislators, he champion add colorado law that limits legislative sessions to 120 days, a law that is still in our constitution today. it works to ensure

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Ken Salazar: that colorado representatives are able to spend the bulk of their time in their communities as opted as opposed to the corridors of the state capitol. in 1991, the people of the 4th congressional

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Ken Salazar: district elected senator allard to the u.s. house of representatives. five years later coloradans elected him to serve as colorado's united states senator . throughout his career on the federal level, senator

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Ken Salazar: allard has been a strong voice for fiscal responsibility and ensuring the security of america at home and abroad. he has used his position on the senate appropriations committee to champion priorities important

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Ken Salazar: to colorado, and he has played an active role on the senate budget committee to restore integrity to the government's use of taxpayer dollars. and yet even as senator allard served in washington, he

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Ken Salazar: has never forgotten where he came from and who he works for. he was always traveling throughout colorado, engageing his constituents, hearing their hopes and concerns. it is there -- it is there in

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Ken Salazar: those communities of colorado that senator allard feels most at home. i have been privileged to work with wayne lard in the u.s. senate for the past four years. we fought together for clean and

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Ken Salazar: safe drinking water for the communities in the lower arkansas valley and through the construction of the arkansas valley conduit which we hope will happen in the next several years. we worked to ensure

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Ken Salazar: the animas la plata water project in south colorado and making sure it is fully funded to implement the historic settlement between colorado and its indian tribes. and over the past few months we

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Ken Salazar: came together to move judicial nominees for the federal court in colorado to the often contentious senate confirmation process. it has been a productive and a fulfilling partnership. now, to be sure,

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Ken Salazar: senator lard and i have not always seen eye to eye on a number of things, but inin spite of our differences i have always respected him. he works hard. he is humble, and he loves the people of colorado.

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Ken Salazar: but more than his love for colorado and his country, senator allard is devoted to joan, christie and sheryl and his five grandsons. you will never see him have a smile wider or laugh harder than when

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Ken Salazar: he is in their company. i am happy because a return to colorado will afford him the opportunity to spend more time with them. he deserves with. mr. president, i know senator allard is a great admirer

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Ken Salazar: of a democrat from colorado by the name of wayne asco -- wayne aspean. he was a strong protecter of coul colls water and a champion of the people during his 24-year tenure in congress. congressman aspen

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Ken Salazar: once said, and you quote, "we all have moments when we feel that the system is wrong, but that does not entitle us to assume that only we could be right and, therefore, permit us to secede from

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Ken Salazar: our society. we have to learn to live with it, to improve on it, if we can; to change it to establish procedures if we must; but we must always remember that individually we are only one person

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Ken Salazar: and that the views and ideas of others might be equally valid as our own." end of quote. for the past 25 years, senator allard has permitted himself and his talents to the people of colorado in this

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Ken Salazar: spirit, in a spirit of reform and humity. -- humility. he has served distinction and a focus on what he thinks is best for our state. i thank him for his service and his friendship, and i congratulate