RANKING MEMBERS HEINRICH, KLOBUCHAR, MERKLEY, HUFFMAN, PINGREE, AND COLLEAGUES CALL ON SECRETARY BURGUM TO HALT CREATION OF UNIFIED WILDFIRE AGENCY, CITING DRAMATIC CUTS AT THE INTERIOR AND CONCERNS WITH FIRE MISMANAGEMENT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, and U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, led their colleagues in sending a letter calling on U.S. ...