Hazardous fuels reduction continues to be very important, and between the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and Inflation Reduction Act, Congress invested more than $3 billion in the Forest Service's hazardous fuels work.

I advocated for and we included in last year's funding bill $7 million for startup funding for the Department to begin consultations with tribes.

I look forward to learning more about that.

A major driver is a $742 million increase to expand access to health care across all IHS Direct Service lines.

DFC has to rethink this strategy doing far more harm than good.

We need to double down on other forest management activities critical to forest resilience and forest health.

I feel strongly that if we want to build a safer, more competitive country, we can't give up on the need to invest right here at home.

Do you like that term, tribal sovereignty fees?

we have to bring balance to our forests through collaboration, we need to work across the lines, the divisions of the timber wars of the past.

Everywhere I go in Oregon I hear people say: Let us do everything we can to make the forest more resilient.

please, any extra attention you can give to that Warm Springs project will be much, much appreciated.

The funding was provided for this effort in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

I want to emphasize that word, 'required'.

I have submitted a request for this budget to include some dedicated funds for supporting folks who advocate for, and support environmental defenders.

I think it is actually something that you would have the power to do without legislation.

I do not want to see us moving backwards.

A factor aggravating the ferocity of these fires is climate chaos, longer, hotter fire seasons.

One of my goals, and I think it is shared by Senator Murkowski, is that we invest on both ends on making our forests healthier and more fire resilient.

We are determined to try to prevent that fire borrowing, which is why we are keeping the window open for a supplemental of another $450 million.

Will you commit to making sure that Oregon and other states that don't have their own Green Banks can still have access to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund?

I want to turn to the Western Oregon operating plan (WOOP), as it is referred to, and this is a plan that coordinates the approach to wildfire response.

In the President's budget, it has a $197 million, potentially, to be used for remediation of dioxin.

We found the three C's, if you will. We found the cartels. We found the corruption, and we found the climate change.

Transitioning to LNG is not decarbonization.

You know, it is clear that the purchasing power of the strategy has diminished significantly.