Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden and Idaho Republican Senator Mike Crapo took to the Senate floor Tuesday night to renew their call for a permanent fix to wildfire funding and put a stop to raiding fire prevention and other Forest Service accounts to fight the fires. Wyden and Crapo introduced an amendment to the energy bill currently on the Senate floor to end fire borrowing for good, stop erosion of the Forest Service budget and ramp up fire prevention projects. Wyden said other Forest Service efforts are hampered without finding another source of wildfire funding. A spending bill passed in December increased fire funding for one year, but Wyden and Crapo say it leaves agencies vulnerable to fire transfers, does not solve the problem long term, and does little to hold down-long term firefighting costs.