Work with House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman to try to get the Senate to advance the Fix Our Forests Act.

Cliff Bentz · Oregon · Republican

policy impact 0.60 specificity 0.85 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Occurrences

We will be working, with the Chair of Natural Resources, Bruce Westerman, to try to get the Senate to move this important bill.

Bentz said he would work with Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman to push the Senate to move the Fix Our Forests Act.

Bentz Briefing: July 28
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Evidence

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During House floor consideration of H.R. 471, Bruce Westerman described the Fix Our Forests Act as a bipartisan bill he was leading and said the Senate had failed to move the prior House-passed version. Westerman then yielded time to Cliff Bentz, who thanked Westerman, explained a key provision, and stated support for the bill.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Shows Bentz publicly working with Westerman during House action on the Fix Our Forests Act after the prior Senate stall.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressional Record: Fix Our Forests Act, House debate on H.R. 471
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Congress.gov lists Senate actions on S.1462: introduced April 10, 2025; hearing held May 6, 2025; ordered reported October 21, 2025; reported and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar as Calendar No. 212 on October 27, 2025. The tracker still shows the bill at the Introduced stage, before Passed Senate.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Senate advanced a Senate version out of committee and to the calendar, but it had not passed the Senate or become law in the latest official status found; lookback search found no newer official action from August 18-20, 2026.

partial same_term A for effort

Congress.gov: Actions for S.1462, Fix Our Forests Act, 119th Congress
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Assessments

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The promise was framed as an effort to work with Chair Bruce Westerman to get the Senate to advance the Fix Our Forests Act, not as a guarantee that the bill would pass the Senate or become law. During the same congressional term, Bentz publicly participated with Westerman in House consideration of H.R. 471, the House passed the bill, and the Senate later held a hearing, ordered the Senate version reported, and placed it on the Senate Legislative Calendar. That is enough Senate advancement to credit the effort-oriented promise as delivered, even though final Senate passage and enactment had not occurred.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%