Kim Schrier: “Putting aside the climate motives behind the electric vehicle push, the policy, on its face, is a transfer-of-wealth…”

We were able to include authorization of the necessary funds for project completion in the 2022 WRDA.

I am so glad that my colleague, Representative Stansbury, mentioned the aftereffects of these wildfires. We all think about smoke and about forests, but we don't think about what happens when the rain comes and the mudslides that follow…

I thank the gentlewoman. I am so sorry to hear that she lost her own home in a wildfire, and I thank her for pointing out firewise and things that people can do to at least mitigate their own risk, although these fires are out of control…

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