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.

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

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.

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

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.

I support your efforts on H.R. 1586.

To every single Member of the Congress in this room, it is your constituents who will be put in danger if there is injunction of fire retardant.

And we should be ashamed, totally ashamed, when we let our public lands grow up to where they are fire hazards...

The ACRES Act is a simple solution to hold our Federal agencies accountable, to see the actual work they are doing will reduce the enormous risk of wildfire.

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 use of retardant is a vital tool that our firefighters need to have at their disposal.