12/01/2009
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"The U.S. Forest Service calls this the driest year in 117 years."
"sometimes the worst is the flooding afterwards, especially when you get intense heat of these crown fires"
"As the Chairman knows, my state of New Mexico has experienced an unprecedented fire season this year, after months and months without rain."
"natural gas has not been given the attention, geopolitically frankly, in our Department of State as we form our foreign policy."