My concern this morning is that forestry takes a real pounding in this budget. My home State of Oregon is all about forests.
My concern is that this is going to be too little, too late to keep the mills open.
If this proposal goes through in its present form, we're going to lose mills, we're going to lose jobs, and some of the most hard-hit commun...
On the very significant cut in hazardous, you know, fuels reduction, our additional concern is that the focus, now, is on the wildland-urban...
Again and again, Mr. Chairman, you and Senator Franken are standing up for people who do not have power and do not have clout.
I just want you to know how strongly I feel about this.
I am pleased about a number of things in the budget, the support for fire suppression.
I appreciate the fact you want to accelerate the hiring, and we've just got to keep the pressure on.
I'm going to ask you, at every hearing when you're here, about what's being done to get more folks in place.
I'll fight like crazy for those kinds of thinning programs.
We just cannot have this situation, where it seems that most of the discussion, most of the focus goes to the urban.