The mega-fires, the large fires, should be treated as the natural disasters they are.

Let us get this done.

The concept was that we could create a lot of jobs in rural America if people could take loans on their electric bill...

one including sage-grouse conservation, another being the Malheur Refuge itself, management of the refuge.

There are plenty of fascinating and really important issues that the FDA deals with.

I stand with you shoulder-to-shoulder in the cause of mandatory labeling.

It just kind of defies logic, and so I want to ask the question again. Why did the FDA decide to do away with advisory panels on these dangerous drugs?

Everywhere I go in Oregon, folks note the importance of it to the success of their rural communities.

Well, I can tell you it does not get through because just recently, for example, my daughter had her wisdom teeth extracted...

I do appreciate that your personal background gives you that direct insight because some type of special change is needed here.

Can we continue to ask you to assist us?

When you started out your commentary, you mentioned Harney County and Malheur Refuge. That has been a traumatic experience for Oregon.

We have recently been able to get some data from the Department on maturing mortgages in Oregon...

If the administration reaches the same conclusion, as you put it, before your time is up, I would love to see the coal leasing program ended.

I want to go back to the opioid situation, and I mentioned the number of pills in Oregon, the 100 million pills prescribed for the population in 1 year of 4 million.

I look forward to exploring with the Subcommittee the possibilities, because this will be very important to the housing stock in America.

Since you offered, I just wanted to address the fire borrowing. Senator Wyden and I have been working with Senator Murkowski and have been chief advocates of ending fire borrowing.

to have a product targeted to children that is that effective is troublesome.

the addiction rate for e-cigarettes has increased dramatically.

We are officially in favor of mandatory education, and we think it is one of the most important things that could be done.

It is crazy, 100 million pills in the State of Oregon?

I also appreciate the administration's support for the Klamath settlement efforts.

The longer the tobacco deeming regulation takes, the more attempts there will be to include things like the House's language last year.

I want to turn to the current Senate conversation about opioids and opioid addiction and the overdoses that are occurring.

What we have seen in a lot of the farming communities in Oregon is a declining population.