David Schweikert: “To my colleague from Oregon, one more time, the reference points in the GAO study actually said vehicles that lay idle…”

“To my colleague from Oregon, one more time, the reference points in the GAO study actually said vehicles that lay idle, and that is why we chose these. There was actually a reason for choosing these three agencies. Mr. Chairman, a couple of data points: Agriculture, 29,818 light-duty vehicles; Interior, 18,752 light-duty vehicles; the Department of Energy, 7,315 light-duty vehicles. We are asking them to do the 10 percent reduction of those vehicle fleets over the 4 years. If technology efficiencies, the new gig economy, however you see it, can't accomplish that through the simplest reforms brought to us by the modern era, we are in trouble. Mr. Chairman, I ask for support of this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I think the gentleman misstated. It is 10 percent per year for 5 years. It is a 50 percent reduction in fleet. So that seems, without much more granular data, pretty radical. And I wouldn't want to see that the next time I have got a major fire, the Forest Service doesn't have adequate vehicles in the Willamette Forest or in any other forest in my State to dispatch all the people they need to command and control and to deal with that fire. So I think the idea of the study has merit. I think it is an arbitrary cut of 50 percent, particularly with two land management agencies that manage millions of acres of land.…”