Will the Forest Service support legislation to extend this provision across all Forest Service lands?

The Forest Service used to have what was called the 10 a.m. rule.

Until they quit suing, until we quit giving them the ability to hold up the management, there is no amount of money and no number of staff that are going to be able to fix the problem with our forests.

the primary culprits bogging down responsible management and recovery of our overgrown fire-prone forests have been and remain onerous regulatory burdens and the continued weaponization of our courts by activist environmental groups

the so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law reflects yet another example of Congress just throwing money at a problem, trying to put a Band-Aid on the symptoms instead of actually getting to the root problem

we need a lot less talk or a little less talk and a lot more action. That is the only thing that is going to fix this wildfire crisis

the Forest Service's budget has more than doubled, doubled, in 10 years, and yet that still is not enough

Can you assure me that henceforth, upon discovery of a fire, you will order an aggressive initial attack?

But you knew about it. You deliberately sat on it.

Every day, the Forest Service had helicopters flying over to take pictures for Facebook but never bothered to drop a bucket of water or put the damn thing out.

This is insane. Please tell me that you are dropping that policy and that you will be vigorously attacking fires on their initial discovery rather than waiting for them to become these massive conflagrations.

Thanks so much for this important hearing.

They will literally be the last internal combustion fleet vehicles on the road 20 years from now.

I am proud to be cosponsoring the Postal Vehicle Modernization Act with you, Chair Maloney, and with Representative Connolly.

It would be really hard to cook up a model or a business case that favors lumbering internal combustion vehicles that get an average of 8.6 miles per gallon over EVs.

I have been leading the charge for postal fleet electrification along with my friend Representative Connolly for nearly a decade now.

We can build more and more ships, but if we cannot keep them at sea because they cannot be maintained in an orderly and quick way, it doesn't do much for us.

Building on that, and on what Mr. Courtney was raising with regard to sealift, it is clear that we are in a position now to not be able to support our efforts in the Western Pacific, should it be necessary.