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The Senate this week told the Obama administration to stop spending = stimulus=20 bill wildland firefighting money on urban parks in the nation's capital = - the=20 first time either chamber has voted to reject one of the = administration's=20 stimulus spending decisions.

With fires raging out West, lawmakers said, it was ridiculous to = spend=20 firefighting money in Washington, which has no national forests and = isn't=20 considered a forest fire danger spot. In a voice vote Tuesday, senators = voted=20 unanimously to prohibit the U.S. Forest Service to spend any of its $500 = million=20 in wildland fire money in the city.

"This is ridiculous, it is outrageous, and we should not stand for = it," said=20 Sen. John Barrasso, the Wyoming Republican who sponsored the amendment = to the=20 Interior Department spending bill.

The money, part of the $787 billion stimulus bill, came from a $500 = million=20 fund the Forest Service was given for "wildland fire mitigation."

Earlier this month, the Forest Service announced that among its = wildland fire=20 grants were two D.C. programs: $90,000 for a city government summer = green job=20 corps program and $2.7 million for Washington Parks & People, a = nonprofit,=20 to start a green job corps.

The grants, first reported by The Washington Times, drew condemnation = from=20 lawmakers, who said forest fire money should be spent on stopping forest = fires.=20

But Caleb Weaver, press secretary at the Agriculture Department, = which=20 oversees the Forest Service, said the money going to Washington is part = of a=20 fund set aside for state and private land, not national forests. Even = though the=20 money was in the "wildland fire mitigation" section of the stimulus = bill, he=20 said, Congress allowed it to be spent on healthy forest and ecosystem=20 improvement activities.

"The point of these economic recovery funds was principally to create = jobs,=20 especially in areas that were struggling. The District of Columbia has = one of=20 the highest unemployment rates in the country," Mr. Weaver said.

Stephen W. Coleman, executive director of Washington Parks & = People, said=20 his grant was filed under a program aimed at boosting forest health. =

"There was never anything about firefighting. We have fought fires in = parks=20 in D.C., but that's not what this is about," Mr. Coleman said. = "Obviously=20 everybody recognizes there are urgent needs in firefighting, but there = are also=20 urgent needs in urban neglected green spaces."

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