Jeff Duncan actually said...

"we have the Sumter National Forest in my district, and we constantly have complaints from local citizens when the United States Forest Service does control burns"

"the largest forest fire in a generation in South Carolina burned 19,000 acres, $20 million in damage, 76 homes destroyed"

"Don't you think that in these urban areas, where the forest land bumps up to urban areas, you know, with a little bit of public awareness campaigns about what that smoke means during prescribed burnin..."

"But we have talked in this Committee many times about what the environmental policies that were put in place during the late--well, mid-1990s forward, that decimated the timber industry in the Northwe..."