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
It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.
A partisan panel of government officials to look into the government's mistakes? That's like the fox guarding the henhouse,
Accepting the blame and putting politics aside would have been the true sign of leadership, ... (President Bush) has taken responsibility - Congress needs to do the same.
He was scared. I had never seen a terrified face like that.
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,
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.
We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.
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.