Right now, the US Department of Agriculture has all this red tape where they have to go through the Department of Labor to be able to hire wildland firefighters themselves. This bill will seek to cut through that red tape and directly be able to hire those wildland firefighters. And hopefully we can, depending on what the ultimate bill looks like, continue at funding levels, because we know our firefighters on the ground in our federal forests aren't making what they should. (07:57–08:05)
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