Colorado Wildfires (Executive Session)
In an executive session, Senator Hickenlooper spoke about deadly wildfires in Colorado, including a fire near the Colorado-Utah border in which one firefighter was badly injured and four others died. He said Colorado is seeing more fires because of drought and climate change, asked the Department of the Interior to investigate what went wrong, and urged passage of his bill on forest management to reduce the spread of fires. He also said the Trump administration had withheld money for water projects and denied disaster aid to Colorado communities, and urged Congress to pass a bill to review those decisions and keep disaster aid fair. He closed by calling on Congress to work together on solutions to make communities safer from drought and wildfires.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .
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