Chairman Jordan Questioning at Hearing on California Fires & Consequences of Overregulation
On 2/6/2025, A House Judiciary subcommittee met to discuss fires in California and whether the state’s forest and land management practices — or other policies — have resulted in wildfires that could have been prevented or better contained over the years. The Feb. 6 hearing from the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust came amid ongoing debate about whether federal disaster aid following last month’s devastating wildfires in Los Angeles County should come with conditions. President Donald Trump and some Republican leaders in Congress have floated the idea of tying aid to mandated changes to the state’s land management practices, water policies or voter ID laws. Republicans alleging “staggering failures” by California’s Democratic leaders while Democrats chastised their GOP counterparts, alleging they were using Californians who are victims of the wildfires as political pawns.
GOP committee members and some of the witnesses called to testify were critical of policies in California, in some cases suggesting that leaders in the deep-blue state have catered to environmentalists at the expense of commonsense regulations that they say would keep the public safe.

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Chairman Jordan on California Fires & Overregulation, environmentalists staggering failures