I have served on the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations for 26 years, the Subcommittee on Military Construction for 18 years.
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In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.Norm Dicks
So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.
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Washington state - one of the most military-dependent states in the country - has had a lot of good breaks in the last five years ... so I'm not going to second-guess the commission.
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Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts.
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This would have been a nice thing to have, but hey, the commission overwhelmingly decided the secretary of Defense has not made a case to close down the second shipyard on the East Coast. There's a real strong argument that having two strong shipyards on each coast makes good sense.
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During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.
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