It is frustrating to hear this partisan blame going back and forth.

If you don't like our plan, why isn't the Senate passing a bill? Why isn't the President proposing something?

Completely separates the government from the control of the people, which is the very definition of a democracy.

First, I would like to remind my Democratic colleagues that the House acted last month to increase the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion. They all voted against it.

There has been a massive expansion of the Federal Government intruding in every area of our lives, and we have to pull it back.

Is there a more profound threat to democracy than that?

I think we are entitled to ask how are the forests doing? And the answer is absolutely damning.

when they say, well, it is climate change, I think how clever of the climate to know exactly the boundary line between the private and Federal lands, and only devastate those on the Federal side of the boundary line.

If you found a rattlesnake curled up in a corner of your bedroom that wasn't doing anything, would you simply monitor it until it did?

So, I guess the first question is, why shouldn't we extend that to the 193 acres of the U.S. Forest Service?

Private lands are usually healthy. They are well managed. Tree density is matched to the ability of the land to support it, and they actually make money doing that.