09/15/2009
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"Thank you."
"today over 40 percent of your budget is devoted to wildland fire management. This is a dramatic increase from 13 percent of your budget in 1991."
"I have joined Senator Wyden and Crapo as a co-sponsor of the legislation you mentioned, Madame Chairman."
"I strongly support the President's supplementary request for 615 million in wildfire suppression."