"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."
"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."
"Congressman LaMalfa's bipartisan Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act will ensure our land managers are able to continue to use fire retardant to save lives, protect communities, and ..."
"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."
"The final bill before us today is the TOXIC Act, which is being led by Congressman Peters."
"And we should be ashamed, totally ashamed, when we let our public lands grow up to where they are fire hazards..."
"Across the West, we continue to face a wildfire crisis."
"Since 2000, we have averaged more than 70,000 wildfires per year and an average of 7 million acres burned annually."
"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."
"We must be able to fight wildfires with everything we have, and limiting firefighting agencies' ability to do so flies in the face of forest conservation and our mission to protect nearby residents."
"The use of retardant is a vital tool that our firefighters need to have at their disposal."
"I support your efforts on H.R. 1586."