If you could achieve interagency operability, you will have achieved a great deal.

But you are intent on getting that road open as soon as possible, given that the road itself is an attractive asset.

There is an inequality now that I think it would be helpful to address.

I hope that the Park Service begins now to think about how to sustain that funding, whether to fold it into the ongoing budget or what the strategy will be because limited funding--the deadline has a way of coming.

In 2018, I chaired a hearing of the Senate Aging Committee on why the costs of insulin was so high.

Senator Daines and I have been advocating for.

the National Park Service has lost almost 19 percent of its operations capacity since 2011

Senator Daines and I have been advocating for.

Will you commit to working with Senator Cantwell and the park in the efforts to rebuild the visitor center?

I rise today to introduce the Reach Every Mother and Child Act of 2023, known as the Reach Act. This bipartisan legislation would strengthen the United States' efforts to end preventable deaths of mothers, newborns, and young children in…

I sincerely urge you, in the next budget, we should see a growth in annual maintenance in order to prevent the development of further deferred maintenance in the future.

I hope you will convey to your staff and to the thousands of people that work for the Park Service the compliments of this Committee for the yeoman service that they provide to the country, to their visitors.

I hope that the Park Service begins now to think about how to sustain that funding, whether to fold it into the ongoing budget or what the strategy will be because limited funding--the deadline has a way of coming.

In 2018, I chaired a hearing of the Senate Aging Committee on why the costs of insulin was so high.

Senator Daines and I were prime sponsors of the Great American Outdoors Act to address deferred maintenance.

I hope you will look at that and that there will be an equalization at some point so that the newer designees are not treated less robustly.

What we found was a system of getting insulin from the manufacturer to the customer that was rife with perverse incentives, convoluted and opaque.

The problem with that explanation is insurance is based on the principle that the healthy are subsidizing the sick.