WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 02: U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (C) talks to the news media outside the White House November 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. Salazar hosted a Clean Energy Economy Forum peole from 39 States across the country to discuss 'renewable energy and job creation on public lands, climate impact and adaptation, and efforts to support and maintain the treasured landscapes of America in the emerging clean energy economy.' Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 02: U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (C) talks to the news media outside the White House November 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. Salazar hosted a Clean Energy Economy Forum peole from 39 States across the country to discuss 'renewable energy and job creation on public lands, climate impact and adaptation, and efforts to support and maintain the treasured landscapes of America in the emerging clean energy economy.'

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  5. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 06: U.S Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (L) walk away from reporters after talking outside the White House following a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama along with other members of Congress October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama met with Congressional leadership and the chairs and ranking members of the relevant committees to discuss planning for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  6. U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speak about their meeting between Congressional leadership and President Barack Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan at the White House in Washington, October 6, 2009.
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  9. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar delivers his address at the Bela Center, the venue of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Thursday Dec. 10, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
  10. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar delivers his address at the main venue of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Thursday Dec. 10, 2009. The largest and most important UN climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
  11. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar delivers his address at the Bela Center, the venue of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Thursday Dec. 10, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
  12. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar arrives to deliver his address at the Bela Center, the venue of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Thursday Dec. 10, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
  13. Emily Rodriguez, from Ossining, NY, with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has "1 Voice" written on her forehead as she waits for U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's address at Bela Center, the venue of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Thursday Dec. 10, 2009. The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
  14. Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe from Montana who was the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit regarding the U.S. government's trust management and accounting of over three hundred thousand individual American Indian trust accounts, left, is greeted by Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar following an announcement on the settlement of Cobell lawsuit at the Interior Department in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Attorney General Eric Holder follows is at the right.
  15. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Attorney General Eric Holder, not in pictured, make an announcement on the settlement of Cobell lawsuit on Indian Trust Management at the Interior Department in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009.
  16. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Attorney General Eric Holder, not in pictured, make an announcement on the settlement of Cobell lawsuit on Indian Trust Management at the Interior Department in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 in Washington.

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