Mark Begich actually said...

"Does it need more? I am giving you a softball there."

"We know since the 1990s the amount of money for suppression has gone from about $1 billion to $3 billion."

"one thing I am always nervous about, to be frank with you, is another committee around this place, because we will committee stuff to death."

"For Alaska to have a fire of that magnitude in May is unheard of."