Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"I'm from Missouri and you've got to show it to me. I've seen it and I'm ready to do something about it."

"So how then do we make sure that we have done all that we should be doing again, to reduce the hazardous fuels if we're not insuring that the dollars are available to do just that."

"If the mechanical treatment of hazardous fuels is less expensive ultimately both monetarily and really environmentally, then paying for the suppression of these large catastrophic fires, why would we ..."

"It's also tough. I know that when we have had prescribed burns up North you're really subject to a window of weather conditions."