But I do want to impress upon you that right now the community leaders, the mayors of the Borough of the Kenai Peninsula, as well as within the Anchorage area, they are coming to me, not for more in appropriations, because they are not counting on that, they are counting on me for congressionally directed spending.
Murkowski emphasizes community leaders' reliance on directed spending for fire threat mitigation.
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