Jeff Merkley actually said...

"States remain our Nation's frontline environmental implementers and enforcers."

"It is simply a situation where when we do exceed the account and have to shut down other programs, then even the removing the dead and dying trees, well, the prevention side gets robbed to pay the fir..."

"We have a water mold pathogen in Oregon, referred to as Sudden Oak Death, and it is a huge threat to our nursery industry."

"Our mills really are depending on the public trees because the private trees are being exported to Japan and to China."