Jeff Merkley actually said...

"My concern is in being in competition with a diminishing supply of resources, these programs will be damaged."

"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."