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Bruce Westerman

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Bruce Eugene Westerman is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district since January 6, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Westerman has focused on issues such as natural resources, forestry, and environmental policy during his time in office. He has been an advocate for sustainable forestry practices and has worked on legislation aimed at improving the management of public lands. Westerman has also been involved in discussions around economic development and job creation in Arkansas.

Oct 3, 2017

I had a markup in another committee so I wasn't here to hear your verbal testimony.

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Oct 3, 2017

Mr. Speaker, the 21st Century AIRR Act gives a voice to rural America on aviation issues. For too long, our aviation assets have been managed with little to no input from the citizens in the real world who are most impacted. The 21st…

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Oct 3, 2017

Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar) for his leadership in setting up this Special Order on the importance of proper forest management, proper forest management on our Nation's Federal lands. I would…

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Oct 3, 2017

What, other than Federal funding for discretionary grants, what types of policies would help implement the first mile and last mile improvements to our rail system?

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Sep 26, 2017

This problem will only intensify unless we act now.

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Sep 26, 2017

Those are the kinds of activities that are not going to make forests resilient. This is going to worsen the problem.

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Sep 26, 2017

I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a report by the Dogwood Alliance that details exactly why logging, even when it results in durable forest products, does not result in a net gain in carbon emissions.

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Sep 26, 2017

If we are going to get through this period of warming climate, we have to learn how to co-exist with these fires...

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Sep 26, 2017

If we don't have our treatments and try to do boundary protections, they will actually devastate into our lands and cause damages that are unforeseen or can have a great impact onto both the ecological things that we want protected but…

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Sep 26, 2017

It is a major problem facing our country, and I am glad that we are continuing to focus on that.

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Sep 26, 2017

We should apply tribal traditional knowledge and modern forestry to other Federal lands.

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