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Cliff Bentz: “We actually have a few more [people] fighting fire this year…”

Featuring: Cliff Bentz, Republican | U.S. House Oregon, 2nd Congressional District

Congressman Bentz Telephone Town Hall: September 8, 2025

Published September 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:06

My team and I have visited Forest Service offices around my district, asking, first of all, if they had enough people fighting fire. And I'm happy to say that We actually have a few more [people] fighting fire this year than last. And we've been assured by the Forest Service that they have the assets necessary to fight fires. And to that end, we've noticed a dramatic increase in the speed at which the Forest Service has been mounting initial attacks on fire. (08:06–08:11)

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Asserts an increase in the number of people fighting fires this year compared to last year.

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“We were running numbers on what it was going to cost America for each one of the people that came across illegally, and that number was…”
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“The cost of fuel in Oregon is still something like a dollar to a dollar and a half higher than in other states across the nation.”
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“We've put in 175 billion for border security.”
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“There's going to be an additional 701 miles, 701 miles of wall built, 900 miles of river barriers.”
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“We could reduce our CO2 creation in the United States to zero. And it would not make a perceptible difference.”
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“We've had an astoundingly successful change on our southern border. We've gone from seeing a couple of hundred thousand, if not 250,000…”
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“The Oregon legislature... has decided to impose clean fuel standards that are driving up the cost of fuel.”
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“The working family tax cut... has in it the 20% qualified business income deduction.”
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“We also have 150 billion that we put in to modernize our military.”
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“The Snake river dams, the four lower Snake river dams, are not any longer in danger of breached.”
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“There are provisions that require an increase in the amount of timber harvested from our federal lands.”
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“A significant portion [of funds] still goes to counties.”
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“The money that's generated by certain parts of that new wood coming off the forests will go instead to just the U.S. treasury.”
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“We've been assured by the Forest Service that they have the assets necessary to fight fires.”
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“We've noticed a dramatic increase in the speed at which the Forest Service has been mounting initial attacks on fire.”
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“This working family tax cut bill also actually included provisions that are going to slow down spending.”
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“I was able to get a bill passed. It was actually signed into law by President Biden in January.”
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“The water stored in Klamath Lake is available to the farmers and not for fish flows.”
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“We will be removing from [Medicaid] those who are here illegally.”
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“We will be removing people who are making too much money to be on [Medicaid].”
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“We will be removing people who refuse to either work or volunteer or go to school [from Medicaid].”
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“We have been successful in getting the PILT money payment in lieu of taxes to our counties this year.”
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“The Secure Rural Schools money is still being held up.”
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“The big question for all of us right now, though, is can solar be successful without the federal tax credit?”
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“The tax credit is going to go away.”
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“Solar has reached a point now where it's sufficiently inexpensive to be successful when there's no tax credit available.”
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“Bonneville Power Administration, that controls about 80 or 90% of the transmission in the Northwest, has not been, shall we say, expanding…”
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“There's probably a real question as to how much money the administration is going to need to rebuild much of our transmission.”
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“The Comer investigation has requested all documents from Epstein estate.”
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“The Comer oversight investigation requested Epstein and Maxwell's bank records from the Treasury.”
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“The Comer oversight investigation received 34,000 pages from the DOJ with much more forthcoming.”
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“No documents received or made public because of the Massey petition.”
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“Comer has taken one deposition. He will take more.”
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“One interview has already been scheduled by Comer.”
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“There are three written declarations confirmed pending.”
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“No written declarations have been made or required because of HR the resolution 581.”
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“There's no cuts to the Veterans Administration or two veterans in this, in the big beautiful bill or the working family tax cut bill.”
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“I voted over 120 times, I think four veterans bills and against four or five of them.”
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“The reductions that are in the bill are designed to remove from Medicaid those who are here illegally.”
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“The state of Oregon checks every six months to see if you're qualified to stay on Medicaid.”
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“People who are making more than the 138% of poverty level... shouldn't be on Medicaid.”
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“The state of Oregon, for whatever reason, has decided not to check to see if people were eligible.”
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“Schools are going to be responsible for part of the payback [of student loans] if [students] are not being educated to ever get a job.”
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“Oregon is about as gerrymandered as it can possibly be already.”
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“My district, CD2, takes up almost three quarters of the state.”
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“Four of those five districts tie into Portland, making sure that the Democrat numbers were significantly higher than the Republican.”
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“Insurance companies [are] bailing out all over the place [due to wildfire risks].”
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“The bill does a number of different Gulf lease sales over the next 15 years.”
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“It restores oil and gas and coal leasing on federal land.”
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“It is the law now, so no longer is it something that people say might happen. It has happened.”
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“The gas tax is going to go up and many of the fees that surround the gas tax are going to go up.”
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“There is $50 billion that's been set up in this bill to help with small rural hospitals, transitions through some of the changes that are…”
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“One of the biggest challenges we face right now is nurses. We don't have enough of them.”
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“If you want to get a Covid shot, you're probably going to have to have your doctor tell the pharmacy that you should get it.”
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“We have introduced legislation to have the wolf delisted in all of Oregon and Washington state's the same way.”
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“The US Fish and Wildlife actually wants the wolf delisted.”
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“I've seen four folks wearing the fatigues of the guard.”
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