It is difficult to understand how fuels projects would be completed if firefighters are routinely called up for wildfire duty.

the primary reason that I have been hearing, personally from firefighters, is the pay gap.

We can no longer view these villains as natural disasters, what they really are, are human-caused unnatural disasters.

I am still concerned that the EPA is failing to protect frontline communities already overburdened with toxic chemicals and other forms of pollution when it comes to that process.

It is essential. People can't take jobs if they can't afford a place to live.

Do you like that term, tribal sovereignty fees?

Somehow the prospect of working for the Forest Service while you live in your car is not such an entertaining one.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Act provided for investment in high-risk firesheds.

We need to double down on other forest management activities critical to forest resilience and forest health.

Similarly, approval expanding a fossil fuel pipeline in my state is contrary to the steps that Oregon has taken to build a clean energy future.

Those two species were like the core of the diet that supported the tribes from time immemorial.

We need to really reduce the risk of fire and that means directing resources to do forest management.

Everywhere I go in Oregon I hear people say: Let us do everything we can to make the forest more resilient.

Funding for the Forest Service is a perfect example of why we need to invest in non-defense spending, to defend our communities from wildfire, improve public health, protect jobs, and increase the health and resiliency of our forests.

I want to emphasize that word, 'required'.

I want to turn to tribal co-management. The Klamath Tribe in the southern part of Oregon, their reservation was taken back by the Government when the tribe was terminated.

One of the things that both Russia and China have been engaged in is transnational repression and last week, I introduced a bill with Senators Rubio, Cardin, and Hagerty, a comprehensive bill.