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Posted: 01/16/2013
WASHINGTON - An administration official says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will leave the Obama administration in March.
Salazar has run the Interior Department throughout President Barack Obama's first term. Before joining the Cabinet, he served as a senator from Colorado.
Salazar is the latest Cabinet secretary to leave the administration as Obama heads into his second term.
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