Bruce Westerman: “I know there is a lot of talk about the IIJA and what a great bill it was. It was the largest infrastructure bill passed…”

“I know there is a lot of talk about the IIJA and what a great bill it was. It was the largest infrastructure bill passed in the history of the world. It was so important that it never even went through a committee here in the House. It came right to the House floor, and it seems like all we are doing is fixing it. We have a suspension bill we will be voting on later that fixes a problem that was in the IIJA. I am confused why my colleague is pushing this bill that would undo much of the core work in the IIJA, including the $170 million that would go to his district under the current 10-year strategy. I think it is another example of why we have to do regular order and why we have to bring these bills to committee. {time} 1200 We want to solve these problems, but you have to have real solutions to solve a problem. There are examples of how we can do bipartisan work to fix forestry. Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), who is working on bipartisan forestry legislation. Mr. McCARTHY. Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his work. This is probably one of the areas we work on where his knowledge when it comes to the forest, healthy forests, and making sure they are there for the future is so important.…”