I sincerely hope you and your subcommittee will consider our request to provide funding of the ABPP Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants Program at its authorized level of $10 million.

Thank you Chairman Murkowski, Ranking Member Udall, and members of this subcommittee for the opportunity to relay our needs to you.

We urge you to make a greater investment in States and local communities.

TCF supports full funding of the President's budget request of $900 million in fiscal year 2017 for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

It is vital that these increases be preserved.

The major programs under your jurisdiction that we count on year in and year out are the entire suite of Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) programs.

We urge the Congress to support the FIA program and request funding for the program in fiscal year 2017 of at least $83 million.

We urge Congress to fund the Refuge System at $506.6 m in fiscal year 2017.

They were harming people.

You have an obligation, the both of you.

How do I do that, sir?

What do we do so that everybody sitting here today is clear that when there is a warning signal, no matter how small--and here, they weren't small. They were not small. They were huge.

I was right. I went down there and got it myself.

How many staff have been held accountable? How many retrainings have you had? How many water tests are you doing?

And as both sides try to tackle this problem, because our real issue here is to figure out how we prevent it from happening ever again and, secondly, what we can do about restoring faith to the--our constituents who don't believe either of…

this significant increase, I believe, will result in eligible low-income children being, quite frankly, kicked off the lunch program.

These kids can't help any of those certification or verification problems. They are not responsible for the waste and issues that you addressed.

Can you commit today that you are going to work on that and make sure that we are getting the data that we need?