Jeff Merkley actually said...
I want to turn next to NOAA's Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund. This is a fund that has been essential to my State and much of the Northwest that have significant salmon runs because it is such a challenge restoring streams, habitat for transitioning salmon coming up and down the river, so on and so forth, for spawning.
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Merkley emphasizes the importance of the salmon recovery fund for his state.
04/10/2013