Doug LaMalfa

We are obviously extraordinarily concerned about regulation that we simply can't afford and that doesn't fix an actual problem.

We have to vastly increase our pace and scale of doing forestry work, instead of these half measures we have been doing so long.

I was pretty bummed out here recently in Committee that the Forest Service testified against my bipartisan legislation.

We are somehow not in favor of your mission and firefighting and forest management.

We need more water storage. We need smarter allocation of water and not so much environmental water running out.

I just cannot imagine how taking this tool away upon the millions of acres we are burning every year, especially in the West, is going to be a good idea while we wait for a brand-new process to relitigate whether this is a good material.

I remind you, CO2 is only--take this home--0.04 percent of our atmosphere. It is not the end of our world we have in CO2.

I think they have maybe spent around $20 billion for a project originally told to be $33 billion, and probably estimates are conservative at $120 billion.

They didn't listen, and now they are dealing with the ramifications.

Congress is going to have to just direct which projects are to be built and get them going because agency staff have figured out the formula to keep any project from ever getting built.

Thank you, Chairman Bentz, and also Chairman Westerman, for allowing us to have this field hearing...

What are we doing here when we can hardly keep the retardant available to us, yet so little is being done on these illegal grow sites for marijuana and such?

So, we are talking about a pretty safe material here. And those folks that are trying to thwart that are really putting a lot of land, a lot of acres, a lot of wildlife, and a lot of people and communities in great harm.

In the Forest Service testimony, it was expressed that the Biden administration opposes touching the Clean Water Act.

Yes, and we are so far behind, though, now it is really hard to introduce the fire, so we have to do a lot more mechanical harvest and find a narrow window of time in the winter or whatever that you can actually burn things, which I…

The bogging down is what is causing us to lose.

It seems to make perfect sense, the correlation there between fire and the overloaded inventory.

I am looking forward to working with the Committee and other stakeholders on today's panel to protect the health and safety and be able to use this essential tool for fighting fire in the heat of fire season.

I am in full support of your proposed legislation H.R. 1586, Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023.

H.R. 1586 would stop this lawsuit from jeopardizing our environment and communities.

Fire retardant is essential to contain and combat wildfires.

We appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

We support your efforts on H.R. 1586.

I appreciate your leadership on this critical issue and that the legislation has strong bi-partisan support.

We applaud the introduction of H.R. 1586, a bipartisan bill that will support our nation's wildland firefighters...