Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, I support my friend from California in
urging that this body focus on this crisis in the West. With the
outrage that has happened with the DACA students and with the tragedy
in Houston, there are lots of things to occupy our time. But the
firefighting in the West has impacted thousands of people. I have
people who are forced to evacuate in my community. We have 24 large fires in Montana, 19 in Oregon, and 17 in
California. But what is really outrageous is that the Republican
leadership in the House refuses to treat these disasters the same way
we would treat Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Katrina being able to put
disaster funding on the table.