Again and again, Mr. Chairman, you and Senator Franken are standing up for people who do not have power and do not have clout.
on our watch we are not going to tolerate this kind of moral blot.
what they have been subject to, in my view, is slavery, pure and simple.
I just want you to know how strongly I feel about this.
I am pleased about a number of things in the budget, the support for fire suppression.
I appreciate the fact you want to accelerate the hiring, and we've just got to keep the pressure on.
I'm going to ask you, at every hearing when you're here, about what's being done to get more folks in place.
I'll fight like crazy for those kinds of thinning programs.
We just cannot have this situation, where it seems that most of the discussion, most of the focus goes to the urban.
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