U.S. State Attorneys General

Thank you for the work that you have done in exposing some of the challenges facing our National Park Service.

While I think it is great that your employees are now being able to report various kinds of workplace concerns that they have, sexual harassment and mistreatment, that is a very--how should I say?--very sensitive, underreported, kind of…

I think that in this area prevention is really important so there are any number of things that you can do, but a large part of prevention is that people need to know when their rights are being infringed upon and that there are very clear…

I think that the budgets that are proposed for Fiscal '18 will make it much more difficult for the Park Service to take the right kinds of steps to respond to these issues.

I was very astounded to learn that there is a lot of hiring of relatives, et cetera, and I hope that that is another area that you are going to clean up.

Well clearly this is not something that is going to change overnight, so obviously we are going to continue our oversight inquiries as to how you are doing, what further resources you need.

I think it is going to be a major challenge for you all to provide all the kind of necessary resources that you need to really change the culture.

I do commend the National Park Service for undertaking some pretty basic kinds of steps to put in place training, including a very needed ethics training.

The President proposes to cut funding to NPS by almost $400 million and approximately 1,200 people would lose their jobs.

Business is booming at our national parks, which just set a new record for attendance for the third consecutive year.

I am very interested in finding out about.

If we could just stop obstructing around here, maybe we can get some agenda moving and done

Without immigration reform, without getting an additional number of workers, our work pool would actually shrink

What effect do these programs that actually incentivize folks, in my opinion, to sit out the workforce, have on the low labor participation rate?

That is very good. Please keep that up.

I am not sure I understand. There are three submarines right now that should be deployable except that they are needing to be repaired. That is not accurate. Is it?

When you are talking about infrastructure, you are talking about the movement of a number of our troops from Futenma to Guam and recycling through Australia and eventually to Hawaii.

I would like to ask you how are you incorporating the shift to the Asia-Pacific as you consider expanding the fleet to deploy the number of ships you need?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

It has been long enough and the time for leadership is certainly now.

Funding for critical programs, both defense and non-defense, is not an either/or proposition.

The mindless cuts to defense and non-defense programs brought by sequestration were meant to be so bad that Congress would move forward or would be forced to find an alternative way forward.

I think it's really important that you are paying attention to the corrosion issue because the lifetime use of our aircraft can be extended by that kind of attention to that matter.

I would say the C-9s are not only hard down but we've transitioned them out of the Marine Corps inventory.