 A standalone bill, the Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act, was introduced last year but has only advanced significantly in the Senate. Montana-based smokejumper Isaac Karuzas is a union steward with the National Federation of Federal Employees, which has been pushing heavily for pay raises and other wildfire reforms. We needed a champion to attach it to a bigger bill and into the appropriations bill, which we got. And Simpson was a champion.