Jeff Merkley actually said...

Can we recognize that this is an incredibly powerful tool to help address the goals in the Western Water and Working Lands Framework?

And in the eastern part and southern part of my state we have had droughts that have gone on year-after-year.

I was just up at Crater Lake where they showed that they have lost 240 inches of average snowpack over the last 90 years.

I've been pushing the administration to set up just such a hotline and the reaction so far has been modest.