Ron Wyden actually said...

"The urgency couldn't be greater. Every day we face severe problems in our Eastside forests."

"We need to reinvest proactively in avoiding those catastrophic fires and putting the communities to work doing that."

"I think Mr. Webb, who's with us, still makes a valid point, that if you had sufficient funding, No. 1, and an actual way to jumpstart the process of breaking, you know, the gridlock, you wouldn't need..."

"Even though Senator Wyden says he will do everything possible to secure funding, neither he nor Presidents Obama control the appropriation process and the probability of funding is unlikely."