On the very significant cut in hazardous, you know, fuels reduction, our additional concern is that the focus, now, is on the wildland-urban interface.
My concern is that this is going to be too little, too late to keep the mills open.
We've got to get, you know, in there.
what they have been subject to, in my view, is slavery, pure and simple.
Mr. Chairman, thank you, and filibusters are popular around here, but you will not get one from me today.
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 appreciate the fact you want to accelerate the hiring, and we've just got to keep the pressure on.
I am pleased about a number of things in the budget, the support for fire suppression.
If we lose the infrastructure in eastern Oregon, which is absolutely pivotal to bringing people together, then you don't...
There's no question that having proposals that add up, that can be a model, you know, for the country, are critically, y...
We just cannot have this situation, where it seems that most of the discussion, most of the focus goes to the urban.