06/24/2020
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"It is fiscally responsible to give USGS the necessary funding and to hold it to account."
"having dedicated funding that they can rely on... will help to build sustainable, long-term programming."
"I think one of the concerns is, without the kind of work that you are doing, without digging into that research, we can't accurately count how many wildlife-related cases there are."
"Congress provides far less funding for the Department of the Interior to monitor diseases in wildlife than it does for the Department of Agriculture to monitor diseases in domesticated animals."