Will President-elect Obama Appoint U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior?

Submitted by Melissa Merz on 12/15/08

UPDATE -- 10:10 P.M. ET: It's official. Obama has selected Senator Salazar to be the next Secretary of the Interior. From the Los Angeles Times:  

Salazar's family helped settle what is now New Mexico in the 1500s. He was raised on a ranch in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado and became an attorney with expertise in water law. He led Colorado's Department of Natural Resources and was state attorney general before winning a vacant Senate seat in 2004 and entering Congress in the same freshman class as Obama.

The Colorado senator campaigned vigorously for Obama in the swing state this fall, with Salazar barnstorming rural areas in a recreational vehicle, preaching alternative energy development and its potential to revitalize rural economies.

Cabinet appointments are a quadrennial parlor game in Washington. Facing unprecedented economic and other crises, President-elect Barack Obama seems to be moving along at a brisk speed. This afternoon, Obama named his environmental team, and now speculation has turned to some of the other federal agencies.

Today, the Denver Post is reporting that NDN's good friend, U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO), is in serious contention to be appointed as Secretary of the Interior. As a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Salazar has been a staunch advocate of renewable fuels. Equally important, he has been a longtime champion of comprehensive immigration reform, a subject also near and dear to our hearts.

You can watch Salazar addressing the NDN community on March 7, 2007, in the video below: 

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