03/04/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Unfortunately, over the last decade at least, the American Dream has slipped slowly out of reach for many families."
"How do we responsibly address forest health if we can't have a robust fuels reduction program on the front end?"
"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."