This is not forced upon us except that it is the priority of this Administration to cut taxes in the amount of anywhere from $1 to $5 trillion over the next 10 years.

I think it's important for us to make policy and not devolve all of our authority to the Executive Branch in this instance.

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 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 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 working with their folks at headquarters--their superintendents, their regional directors--they're the people that are going to have to model the behavior in a very transparent and I would say, upfront and almost an aggressive…

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

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

I am very interested in finding out about.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

That is very good. Please keep that up.

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

if we're committing to absolutely nothing, why do you even need authorization?