[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 23753]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING UP IN SMOKE--LITERALLY

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Speaker, our tax dollars are going up in smoke. And 
this time where there's smoke, there's no fire. Literally.
  Bureaucrats in Washington, DC, plan to spend $2.8 million for 
wildland fire management right here in the District of Columbia. The 
trouble is there aren't any wild lands in DC, let alone wildfires.
  Out West fires are a serious problem that cost billions of dollars. 
Because of poor forest management practices, combined with the Rocky 
Mountain pine beetle, fires are burning hotter and larger than ever 
before.
  Spending millions on fire management in the District of Columbia is a 
poke in the eye to the American taxpayer and a slap in the face to the 
people living in danger of real wildfires in the Intermountain West 
like Montana.
  Join me in extinguishing this wasteful use of so-called ``stimulus'' 
funds once and for all.

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