Today the Subcommittee will hear testimony on legislation I introduced two weeks ago, along with Chairman Rahall, to help repair and restore our nation's public lands while employing and training thousands of young Americans and promoting…

Thank you very much. Let me call the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands to order on a hearing on the Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2009.

I am proud to have the support of preeminent conservation groups, as well as the leading national parks advocacy groups.

I think the issue of outreach and how it is done and the importance of that is important and the insular areas and territories to be included in the overall scope of the legislation as vital, and necessary and fair.

Green-collar jobs are here and growing and exist in many of the states of this committee's members.

if we have got money to throw at the banks, then we have got money to invest in our students and young people

We've had the political will to pass policies that create the demand for the clean energy economy.

Thank you very much, and thank you, Mr. Bishop. You reminded me, Mr. Wenk, let me extend the appreciation of at least myself for those public lands that are on the border for not only the resource attention by I think the focus that has…

Welcome to the hearing by the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.

I believe in their core they want you to have the resources and the attention and the support and the leadership that you deserve to do that job.

Now, I join with the comments of a number of you in applauding the President for signaling a new direction and a willingness to commit the resources and the attention to our Federal workforce.