That creates an enormous inefficiency and failure to pursue many of the goals that we have laid out in the budget.
Jeff Merkley: “That creates an enormous inefficiency and failure to pursue many of the goals that we have laid out in the budget.”
On the recordMarch 3, 2015
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Merkley discusses the inefficiencies caused by budget reallocations in the Forest Service.
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