{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://walden.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/enough-smoke-enough-fires-0", "Enough Smoke. Enough Fires", "2017-09-07", "2017", "2017-09", "Republican", "House", "OR", "Greg Walden", "W000791", "walden.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Enough smoke. Enough fires. \nEnough is enough.\u00a0\u00a0When Cycle Oregon and performances at the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland get canceled because of fires and the toxic smoke, it\u2019s long past time for Congress to address how federal forests are managed and how fires are fought (or not), including policies that affect firefighting in wilderness areas.\u00a0\u00a0\nWhen people in Central Oregon, the Gorge (or just about anywhere on the east side this summer) are told to stay inside, it\u2019s time for a change in federal policy so that decisions to let fires burn include a review of how doing so will add carbon and toxic pollutants into the atmosphere, threaten habitat and water quality and destroy private timberlands and property.\nIt\u2019s also time for the U.S. Senate to stop blocking our bipartisan legislation that has passed overwhelmingly in the House year-after-year which would help prevent catastrophic forest fires by allowing proper management. Further, the bill would provide resources to clean up after forest fires and restore the forests with new trees for another generation.\nThe House Resources Committee has once again approved legislation--Resilient Federal Forests Act--that solves the fire borrowing problem, but more importantly, gives foresters and firefighters new tools to help protect our forests, watersheds and airsheds from the kinds of disasters we endured this summer.\u00a0\u00a0I know we\u2019re always going to have fires, but we must find better ways to control and extinguish them.\nSoon the House will take up this measure and send it to the Senate.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m convinced President Trump will sign it into law if only we can get it to his desk.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://walden.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/enough-smoke-enough-fires-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8874491322785616, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}