I am delighted to see that one of my bills is included in today's agenda, the Forest Service Flexible Housing Partnership Act of 2023.

Do you have a timeline on that?

Ensuring that wildland firefighters, who put their lives at risk each and every day to protect our constituents, are paid a fair salary, receive lifesaving benefits, and have access to affordable housing should be at the top of our list.

We have to recognize the need to do everything that we can to promote healthy and resilient forests and prioritize community safety.

I think that is a significant step in the right direction that moves us closer to the balance.

I have been beating the drum here in Congress, of course, for years with respect to the comprehensive reforms that I think we need to get done, as described and articulated in my bill, the Tim's Act.

Do you support the reauthorization of these programs?

The ability to provide affordable housing options for our Forest Service workers, for our wildland firefighters, for first responders is very important.

I am thankful for this opportunity, and look forward to your questions.

I don't understand how, on the one hand, some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are very quick to fearmonger about offshore wind and its impact on the surrounding environment, but then at the same time are trying to de-fund…

We need to have an all-hands-on-deck approach to support our rural communities and the wildland firefighting workforce.

I am proud to introduce the Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2023, alongside Senator Hirono.

I am disturbed that in the current debt ceiling negotiations our colleagues across the other side of the aisle are insisting on severe cuts across all categories of spending.

Do you support continuing to expand hydropower and officially recognizing it as a renewable energy source?

I have introduced the Forest Service Flexible Housing Partnership Act, along with my colleague, Senator Bennet in the Senate, which extends an existing authority that I know is being utilized right now in my district in Colorado.

I think they are. I mean, as a physician, my job is to take care of patients the best way I know how.

By really focusing in on this kind of greed, what we are actually doing is ending drug companies' ability to make money by just extending the existing invention.

I appreciate the words of my colleague from New York, but I reiterate what this resolution is about and what it says. Congress recognizes and appreciates the dedication and devotion demonstrated by the men and women of local law…