Jeff Merkley actually said...

"the 2015 proposals take the discretionary grant funds from 10 percent of the budget to 16 percent of the budget, which is the opposite of the direction my school districts would like to see us go."

"This is the American dream just slipping through our fingers for millions of working Americans."

"I must say, there is an ecstatic community in John Day, Oregon and the Forest Service was instrumental in developing the innovation of using a service contract rather than a harvest contract to have t..."

"Thank you very much for your support and advocacy of changing the way that we address funding of fighting forest fires."