Bruce Westerman actually said...

It is a great example of how you can have a healthy environment and a strong economy at the same time.

There is a proper time and place for fire, but it is not when your forests are overgrown, overstocked, dried out, and bug-infested.

But it is really hard to come in here and talk about increased money for firefighting, when that is just putting a Band-Aid on the wound ins...

We should be looking at what is causing these fires, not just how do we spend more money to pay firefighters.