RECORD WILDFIRES - NO MONEY TO FIGHT THEM: Congress goes on a 5 week recess.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/congress-lets-western-states-burn-fails-find-funding-combat-wildfires

Congress is heading home for summer vacation, failing to act on emergency funding to combat the wildfires that are raging in the West.

President Obama had requested $615 million in emergency funding to help the U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department pay for firefighting efforts, and the Democratic-controlled Senate proposed a $2.7 billion spending bill to deal with both the wildfires and the influx of unaccompanied minors along the Southwest border. But Senate Republicans used a procedural objection to block its consideration.The House did not introduce a bill to combat wildfires.