"Something needs to change."
"Hazardous, dangerous, unhealthy air quality smoke from these wildfires is literally choking people to death."
"Nearly three decades of poor management has left our Federal forests overstocked with trees and vegetation that fuel increasingly intense fire seasons."
"I absolutely hate that nothing is done to prevent this from happening."
"opening statement"
"I fully agree with you on the need to solve the fire borrowing issue. I have been an advocate of doing that from day one."
"It makes no sense. I am told there are statistics that--it costs four to five times as much to fight a fire as it does to do the kind of work you and I agree needs to be done on the forest."
"I was a cosponsor of that legislation to do landscape scale collaboratives that we are using in Oregon today."
"These fires have left communities in my district blanketed with smoke and with the worst air quality in the world."
"Hon. Greg Walden, a Representative in Congress from the State of Oregon, opening statement."
"CMS has to commit itself to implementing and enforcing its own regulations."