"You got to be kidding me. This is----"
"I include with this testimony the text of a letter of support for its companion bill in the Senate."
"We have got to do something."
"if you all did not call and raise so much Cain with us about because we will not give veterans their drugs they want"
"Thanks to Chairman Stauber, Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez, and all who have worked on this bill."
"Because most of our Committee members are now intimately familiar with the causes and impacts of wildfires, we are going to spend much of our time this morning focusing on the firefighter workforce."
"Some of my colleagues on the Committee, particularly those from the western states, have much more firsthand experience with the impact of wildfires than some of us."
"The only way to ensure that we have enough firefighters to defend our forests into the future is to ensure that they are fully supported and compensated."
"We have essentially created a perfect storm."
"I am hopeful that in this Congress we can actually act on these badly needed reforms."
"In fact, in the last two decades, the top four largest wildfires in human history have occurred in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres."