Patty Murray: “The important point of this amendment is that we go back to trees like that in the picture, which are 250 to 300 years…”

“The important point of this amendment is that we go back to trees like that in the picture, which are 250 to 300 years old and are coming down because we have a rider in place that says people are not part of the process. That is what we are focusing on. Yes, we are concerned about jobs in the Pacific Northwest. The jobs the Senator has talked about have passed under current policy. My amendment says we are going to deal with jobs in the long term. We are going to put a salvage amendment in place that assures that those jobs will occur when people are in the process, with scientific evidence in place, and in a way that is safe and healthy for all of us.”