Kim Schrier: “Legislation you are cosponsoring, Ocean Shippers Reform Act (H.R. 4996), is a step Congress can take now”

I want to first thank the committee for their work on WRDA 2022.

This bipartisan bill would invest in hazardous fuels management by increasing the pace and scale of prescribed burns.

I don't have any further speakers on my side, but I just want to express my appreciation to my colleague Representative Molinaro for sharing that personal account of how this matters for his family, and that just expands to so many other…

We have all talked about thinning forests, making them more resilient. We talked about the risk of catastrophic wildfire. We passed a big infrastructure bill a couple years ago, and part of that was not just protecting roads and bridges…