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Rob Bishop: “The current program has specific dollar amounts going which will be reviewed and specific programmatic responsibility…”

On the recordMarch 20, 2010
The current program has specific dollar amounts going which will be reviewed and specific programmatic responsibility, all of which were stripped out in this particular version. The problem we have is--and we could have easily, easily gone along with the expansion of this program if they had actually allowed us to come up with some kind of limitations, because unfortunately, as I mentioned before, what we have now done with this program, 75 percent of which was to go to make sure that we have healthy forests, where the actual priority was to go to help public lands, is you have taken out all that language and we have simply replicated AmeriCorps.
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Rob Bishop
Republican · Utah
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Mar 20, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker discusses changes to an existing program and its implications for public lands and forest health.

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