Angie Craig: “I have been in the San Bernardino and so have you. For 15 years that forest has gone relatively untouched. So I…”

“I have been in the San Bernardino and so have you. For 15 years that forest has gone relatively untouched. So I appreciate the Senator's passion. What we have tried to strike here is a balance. The picture I am demonstrating is not unlike the picture the Senator from California brought. Why aren't the trees burned around the homes that are gone? The reason they are not is because 60-mile-an-hour winds spread fire in many instances a mile or a half a mile beyond where the fire is burning. Embers fell on the roof of the shake roof homes in California, and the homes are gone because the trees in the immediate area stand. So when the Senator from Oregon and this Senator from Idaho and the other Senator from California were trying to strike a balance, we knew that reaching out as far as we possibly could was where we needed to go, along with recognizing that the urban interface was critical. We believe we have struck that kind of balance. We want to sustain that balance. The money goes where the people exist.”