Jeff Merkley actually said...

So I am just about out of time, but in the last 40 seconds, the Natural Resources Conservation Service is cut by $260 million, but that would profoundly affect the number of conservation plans it can put into place by the USDA.

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Merkley warns about the impact of budget cuts on conservation efforts.

06/12/2017

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