Jeff Merkley actually said...

"With the changing or the more extensive droughts, we're going to see that this problem of accumulated fuels becomes of more and more dreaded effect."

"We had a fire the size of Rhode Island last year in Oregon. We had the worst fire season, you know, in 100 years."

"It makes a lot of sense to try to make these things work, but there has to be a framework in what has been a very uncertain world that provides much more certainty."

"This has been a key, key set of programs."