04/17/2012
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"My final question is we're a big State. There's a lot of land involved. Fire is bad. We lost about 5,000 homes last year in fire and fire on Federal land, which, as I said, is 51 percent of our forest..."
"In order to repair these dams, I have worked with my colleagues to include in last year's Energy and Water Bill $12 million to provide low-interest loans to restore non-Federal dams under the Water In..."
"I have worked hard with my colleagues to develop appropriate funding under the WIIN Act to build storage projects."
"this is the most extensive, severe drought in the west in recorded history."