02/10/2015
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"Are there plans to focus more of your OEC's, more of their resources to address technical assistance?"
"It seems to me that we are reacting slowly to the problem."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is your third Californian in a row, so we have it all--earthquakes, wildfires, floods, droughts, pestilence."
"Sometimes, as the gentleman from Texas indicated, we get involved in the earmark process because it is, quite frankly, faster to give money to the locals than anything else."