Tom Udall actually said...

As the Chairman knows, my state of New Mexico has experienced an unprecedented fire season this year, after months and months without rain.

Now, as the New Mexico monsoon season begins, flooding, debris flows, and mud slides are threatening communities below the burn watersheds.

The U.S. Forest Service calls this the driest year in 117 years.

The largest fire in New Mexico's history, the Las Conchas fire, still burning and after almost a month is only 80 percent contained.