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Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Congress provided $600 million to support Federal wildland firefighters and to ensure they receive a minimum of $15 per hour.

I am very pleased to see that this budget request builds on the historic investments made in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act to improve the resilience of landscapes, reduce wildfire risks, and conduct…

So I think we are the first State in the Nation to do that, and the downside of that is that now we have got all these municipal waste facilities that are having to truck these biosolids to landfills.

I will just talk a little bit more about PFAS. You know, I am not interested in being the expert in Congress on PFAS.

We have to deal with this right now.

I want to do a parochial issue on Maine's offshore wind.

This budget continues to build upon this Administration's commitment to addressing the climate crisis.

I am really pleased with what we are able to do now with some of the types of science and the types of research that we are finding for different uses of wood.

I really do appreciate it. I know the chair mentioned it earlier and I said in my opening remarks, the understanding that we have to have our Federal firefighters on par with, you know, local and other communities, and make sure that we…

Your leadership to The Forest Service is vital to our environment and communities across the country.

I don't know what more evidence you could need than a Stage III clinical trial.

I led a bipartisan letter signed by 20 Senators, bipartisan, asking HHS and CMS to reconsider the restrictive coverage requirements.

CMS needs to stay in its lane. FDA is in charge of drug approval, not CMS.

I am also perplexed why CMS does not respond to a letter from the American Academy of Neurology.

The fact that the President's budget does not provide additional funding, specifically targeting Alzheimer's research.

I just do not understand CMS's misguided and outright unprecedented decision to not cover a whole class of Alzheimer's drugs.

Why does it take so long before you get to the posting? Why does it take 120 days?

That is a long time.