I am one of those Senators who has taken the position and argued for some time that there should be greater oversight ov...
I wish it did not. I would rather not spend a single penny on that.
I am just saying we are buying top-dollar design and construction at a time that we do not have the money to pay for it.
In the appropriations process. So that is a real positive for all of us.
We rob everywhere.
This is our effort to move the Senate into the 21st Century as we do this testimony.
I can tell you, when I said that--and I know Mayor Navarre was there when we were doing an incident press conference, an...
We just want to have a strategy that has an action plan that we can look at and determine if we can fund it, help it, ma...
Thank you very much, Mayor. And just for folks here in the room, these are pictures from that fire, and it is incredible...
one thing I am always nervous about, to be frank with you, is another committee around this place, because we will commi...
As a former mayor myself, I know firsthand how important it is to have personnel and resources to prevent and fight fire...
I really do not see any other entity, aside from the Federal Government, that can really force people to the table to ha...
Does it need more? I am giving you a softball there.
For Alaska to have a fire of that magnitude in May is unheard of.
I hate to use the word, but 'surplus' planes from the military that we--who knows what they were going to do with them.
we thought this was a great win-win not only for the Forest Service but the Coast Guard for equipment that is desperatel...
I think we had to bring in two Canadian water tankers, if I remember right, in addition to our crew.
This is a national issue that everybody has skin in the game on.
