Political Quotes

“The appropriations bill does not designate any money for firefighting in the West. I have been told that right now the Forest Service currently has $352 million available for wildfire suppression, but that is only going to last the next 2 weeks. The latest projections, which are conservative, I am told, indicate the expected expenditure for fighting forest fires this year is $775 million. We are between a rock and a hard place. It occurs to me that with the support of the White House, a clean supplemental for fire suppression, under emergency conditions, makes a lot of sense. We have to provide some money for fire suppression. The American people are turning on their television sets every night, and every night our forests are afire. To give a rundown, they have evacuated all of Glacier National Park.”