00:00Is there further discussion? I recognize myself. We call them categorical exclusions now.
00:08We used to call it management. We used to call it management of our force across America,
00:14and we got away from that ethos, and we have paid the price. The chart that the gentleman
00:20from California produced earlier tells the tale. The two lines that have crossed and now have
00:28shown the enormous amount of wildfire that we have in this country, which I'm thankful that we are
00:35beginning to see more people understand that this is a serious problem, especially for our western
00:41states. That is a good thing, and it is a good thing that the representative from California has
00:48introduced this bill. I mean, think about Los Angeles. We heard testimony, I believe it was in
00:55the Federal Lands Subcommittee just a few weeks ago. $9 million worth of medicine would have
01:01prevented billions of dollars of damage, and these are the type of things that we should be doing,
01:07because delay in dealing with the problems that we have equals death. It equals death of our forest
01:17forest that we managed so well a few decades ago. So I strongly support Congressman McClintock's bill,
01:23fittingly titled Proven Forest Management Act. It's a good common sense proposal, and I want to thank
01:29Representative McClintock for his continued leadership in the fight to restore health and resilience to our
01:35nation's dead, dying, and burning forests. I am hoping that we have turned the corner.
01:41A yield back?
01:47Yeah.
01:49I yield back?
01:53I yield back?
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