There's some extremely interesting pieces in the bill that I'm very familiar with because of the fact that I'm the Natural Resource Committee with Bruce Westerman, who was the architect of these changes. And what they do in this great big The bill imposes upon the Forest Service an obligation to increase harvest by 20% over and above the previous year's harvest. And the idea is to drive up the amount of wood being taken out of the forest. And of course you all, everybody here knows this because you're surrounded by forest. (08:10–08:25)
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Asserts that the bill mandates a 20% increase in forest harvests by the Forest Service.
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