05/09/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"I just held a group of town halls, nine town halls in Eastern Oregon, and the town hall for town hall, people came forward to say hey, I came to say I got a problem."
"it's hugely irresponsible for us to just say we can try to fix the insurance market, and fail to address the underlying causes"
"Is it responsible for Congress to say we're going to ignore the enormous damage that climate change is doing across our country through fires, through smoke, through ice storms, through flash floods, ..."
"As Senator Merkley highlighted, the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program, also known as PL-566, has been especially beneficial."