Jeff Merkley actually said...

"the prevention side gets robbed to pay the fire suppression side."

"I think we can get some funds to try to make this quarantine actually work effectively before it becomes a factor that either starts destroying our BLM forests or eliminates the ability to export nurs..."

"Our mills really are depending on the public trees because the private trees are being exported to Japan and to China."

"the Federal Government should clean it up, and then go decade after decade with doing virtually nothing out there."