Tom Tiffany

They do not have the authority to abate hazardous conditions directly.

I think we should have the head of Catholic Charities come before this Committee and explain what they're doing down on the border to facilitate this illegal immigration that's going on in this country.

Tell that to Erin Rachwal from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, who was here a couple months ago. Remember her? Remember her son took, I think it was like a Percocet pill, something like that, Mr. Chair? Died in his dorm room.

I urge people that contribute to faith-based organizations, you should ask them.

Tell that to Kayla Hamilton's mother. She was just here in the last month, wasn't she, Mr. Chair? Strangled to death, autistic young woman, by someone who was here illegally.

I believe we have the largest human trafficking operation perhaps in the history of the world that is going on at this point.

I urge everyone here--a Democrat candidate for President just was at the border in the last couple days in Yuma, Arizona, and stood with farmers and said this cannot go on.

That is not a legitimate asylum claim, is it?

I do not believe that he has.

Unfortunately, Mr. Chair, we have a name for these people, angel families.

H.R. 3389 would provide fire crews with new wildfire-fighting technologies like CAFFS, thus providing a rapid surge response.

We must reform laws like NEPA, and we have to do it now.

No, it does take reforms. I mean, in California, we enjoyed a $100 billion surplus in our state budget.

We can streamline reviews for these projects and still respect our nation's environmental laws.

He's focused on the processing and completely ignored border security, which, by the way, actually decimates our immigration system.

I look forward to your questions and the continued partnership to address the pressing crisis of out-of-control wildfires.

It is hard to predict how much we would have stopped it because 2018 was a significant year, worst fire behavior than I had seen at any point in my career.

Wildfire emergencies demand immediate action, and the bureaucracy and red tape should not tie our hands.

This bill simply directs the Forest Service to do what they used to do, to direct resources to suppress wildfire and to do prescribed burning with a higher level of planning.

I strongly support allowing counties and tribes to utilize proceeds from timber sales to take additional steps to work together and protect our Federal and non-Federal lands.

Isn't it correct that many of these people are not asylum seekers; that they're actually not legitimate asylees?

Would you be surprised, out of that presentment, that many don't carry any form of identification or authentic IDs?

I thank the chairman for hosting this discussion on the ESA tonight, it could not be more timely to deal with this issue. Mr. Speaker, 50 years ago the Endangered Species Act was created to protect endangered species by taking actions to…

The Tahoe categorical exclusion was the difference-maker in these two situations.

But as I have said before, just throwing money at a problem such as wildfire and forest thinning doesn't work unless you are actually doing the project and the project gets finished. It has to be expedited.