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The Rep congress passed this bill but it doesn't stand a chance in the senate and if it did pass Obama says he will veto it. Our forest will continue to burn up and millions will be spent every summer fighting fires instead of millions being added to our economy and more young fire fighters will be burned alive in these catastrophic crowning fires all because the democrats and Obama are owned by radical environmentalist. Yet another opportunity to increase employment and reduce gov spending goes up in smoke, literally.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House on Friday approved a bill to sharply increase logging in national forests — a measure the GOP said would create jobs in rural communities and help reduce wildfires that have devastated the West.The bill also would add hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from new timber sales while reviving an industry that has shed tens of thousands of jobs in the past three decades.The White House has threatened to veto the bill, which was approved on a 244-173 vote. Seventeen Democrats joined 227 Republicans to back the bill. Just one Republican, Rep. Chris Gibson of New York, opposed the bill. Keith Chu, a spokesman for Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Wyden “agrees it’s time get the (timber) harvest up, to create more jobs in the woods and make forests healthier.”
Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said many rural counties in Oregon and other states “are literally on the brink of bankruptcy sitting next to national forests” where increased timber sales could provide a lifeline.
“They’re choked with smoke, and their economies are choked” by policies that prevent logging, Walden said.
House approves logging bill, but chances in Senate are slim | Local News | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House on Friday approved a bill to sharply increase logging in national forests — a measure the GOP said would create jobs in rural communities and help reduce wildfires that have devastated the West.The bill also would add hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from new timber sales while reviving an industry that has shed tens of thousands of jobs in the past three decades.The White House has threatened to veto the bill, which was approved on a 244-173 vote. Seventeen Democrats joined 227 Republicans to back the bill. Just one Republican, Rep. Chris Gibson of New York, opposed the bill. Keith Chu, a spokesman for Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Wyden “agrees it’s time get the (timber) harvest up, to create more jobs in the woods and make forests healthier.”
Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said many rural counties in Oregon and other states “are literally on the brink of bankruptcy sitting next to national forests” where increased timber sales could provide a lifeline.
“They’re choked with smoke, and their economies are choked” by policies that prevent logging, Walden said.
House approves logging bill, but chances in Senate are slim | Local News | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon