Honorable Dennis Rehberg
United States Representative, Montana, Republican
Representative Rehberg, Montana’s Representative-at-Large, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. He served in the Montana House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990 and as Montana’s Lieutenant Governor from 1990 to 1996. He serves on the Agriculture Committee, the Resources Committee, and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The following statement is from September 5, 2002, testimony before the House Resources Committee during hearings on the President’s Healthy Forests Initiative.Many of America’s public lands have become so overgrown and neglected that they are now powder kegs just waiting to erupt. We all have watched the wildfires rage…