Thomas McClintock actually said...

"We have lost 1,100 square miles of forestland in my district to catastrophic fire in the last 5 years."

"The principal question I have is whether our laws are actually counterproductive to protecting endangered species."

"Our Committee, in the hearings that we have had, has often been shown aerial photographs of forests throughout the western United States."

"Doesn't it make sense to harvest the older trees and replace them with young growing trees to sequester more carbon?"