Honorable John Shadegg
United States Representative, Arizona, Republican
Representative Shadegg, of the Fourth District of Arizona, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. He was U.S. Special Assistant Attorney General from 1983 to 1990 and Special Counsel to the Arizona House Republican Caucus from 1991 to 1992. He serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Financial Services Committee. The following is from September 5, 2002, testimony before the House Resources Committee during hearings on the President’s Healthy Forests Initiative.This year has been one of the most catastrophic periods in the history of wildlands fire management. A total of 6.328 million acres has…