The reason it is not getting done is because there is no leadership.
We are just going to stay with this until it gets addressed.
Why has it not been worked out? Why has it not been accomplished in the year that I have introduced this legislation?
So often, we forget about the families, and we don't really remember what the families are wrestling with.
I am just trying to figure out what is behind your opposition to my legislation.
I feel very strongly that recreation is a special economic engine for Oregon, and I certainly want to see the opportunities that would come ...
My bill would allow a local solution to go forward to protect the monument resources.
I am very pleased that today we are going to be looking at S. 1270, legislation that I have introduced to expand the boundary of the Oregon ...
It is a great pleasure to appear before you today to introduce the President's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congr...
I thank my colleague. You're absolutely right in terms of your diagnosis and the opportunity to move ahead.
Almost every year the Forest Service has to go out and spend more money on wildfire suppression than it has budgeted.
The heart of the problem it seems to me is pretty straightforward. We are having more large wildfires.
But that's what the agency has done over the last few years. That's what we continue to get testimony isn't getting the job done.
I'm looking for some specifics because what we have heard in the past is largely just a recycling of the various approaches.
I look forward to working closely with you.
The more specifics you can give us, the better.
Senator Murkowski and I would do anything possible to get that aviation strategy completed.
We need still, though, more resources to reduce hazardous fuels and suppress wildfires that do occur.
