Political Quotes

“I urge my colleagues not to vote to invoke cloture. I also acknowledge that the efforts to try to reach a compromise on how to protect our forests from disease, infestation, poor health, and fire have not borne fruit, and it is unlikely there will be an agreement reached in a bipartisan way sufficient to allow us to pass something that will provide relief to those, particularly in the West, who have forests that need this kind of treatment. The reality is that this failure to reach an agreement will have disastrous consequences, not just in terms of fire but the health of our forests, particularly in the West, and that is not a situation we should be very proud of in this body.”