On the recordDecember 19, 2018
Let me talk about this because I am pretty doggone upset because the people of Colorado tonight--who are worried about whether they can protect themselves from fire--lost the Wildfire Technology Act in this bill. That was in this bill--a bill that our committee heard, that our committee voted on, that it voted on with bipartisan support, probably unanimously. That was in this bill to protect our communities from wildfire and to protect our firefighters from injury--in this bill. The other thing in this bill is Minturn, CO, which has a water system over a wilderness area and which for years has been trying to fix it. They can't because it is in a wilderness area. So we have to have an act of Congress to allow the city to fix their water system. Rejected tonight because we weren't allowed to vote on it tonight.
