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Ron Wyden: “This was a bipartisan ripoff, in effect, where you would short the prevention accounts and have to constantly shovel…”

On the recordJune 3, 2010
This was a bipartisan ripoff, in effect, where you would short the prevention accounts and have to constantly shovel more money out the door, in terms of fighting fires.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden criticizes the misallocation of funds between fire prevention and firefighting.

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