Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, thank you very much for the opportunity to present my amendment to the Fix Our Forests Act. Mr. Chair, I represent a very mountainous region of California, and every year we have wildfires burn in my region. The problem is particularly acute this year. We have two major wildfires that are still burning in my district, the Bridge fire and the Line fire. Mr. Chair, together, these fires have consumed nearly 100,000 acres. Thankfully, relatively few structures have been affected this year, but Mr. Chair, I was convinced 2 weeks ago that we were going to lose over 1,000 homes in my district. This problem is particularly acute because the fires spread so quickly. Unfortunately, the Line fire that caused the evacuation of parts of my hometown in California was started by arson, and that arsonist started three different fires that day. Two of them, Mr. Chair, firefighters were able to jump on quickly and extinguish. It is the third one that spread quickly enough that it became the conflagration that threatened many communities in my district. This amendment prioritizes emerging technology, such as early- detection technology and the artificial intelligence techniques required to process it in the pilot program that this bill establishes. Mr. Chair, there is a lot of promise in early-detection technologies.…”