Maria Cantwell: “The dairy industry is important to the economy of Washington State and that of the Pacific Northwest.”

Between Washington and Oregon, we've hit a record for the amount of acreage that has been burning.

I think that the arms race that exists now where people are just paying any amount of money from a system is not the right way to get this done.

We have to show people that the connection between the information that we can get, and then the actual action plan that we can put into place, that's where that's where the gaps are.

We just have to move faster.