07/22/2009
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"I hope that as my colleague and I continue to work on this, we certainly will not be shortchanging the volunteer fire departments because they are our best resource, in my opinion, right now to help u..."
"I also do not understand zeroing out collaboratives. These are things that have given us our best effort to date on working collaboratively."
"This budget proposes to cut almost $300 million from fighting forest fires and another decrease of $50 million for preventing wildfires."
"I do not see how the President's budget even begins to enable the Forest Service to fulfill its motto of caring for the land and serving the people."