Cliff Bentz: “Many of the problems that are suggested in that 30-year-old book have been appropriately addressed.”

One of the things that’s a huge challenge is access to get firefighters in so they can fight these fires.

So the market exists now. The issue is, will we have this additional $2.40 to make it actually work?

Mr. Chairman, this is an excellent bill, and we need it in Oregon. We have 30 million acres of trees. We absolutely need what this bill would provide.

People who lose their homes and wages due to wildfire should not be taxed on the funds they received as result of these disasters.