Let me remind folks again, last Congress, Democrats secured more than $1 billion to finally address the staff shortages and challenges with resources that are such an important part of slowing down permitting review by Federal agencies.
Gallego highlights funding secured by Democrats to improve permitting processes.
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These realities are even worse for Indigenous women and girls, which is why we have worked together in the past legislation addressing this crisis of violence.
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I think the first observation is that the reason we are talking about deferred maintenance is because we deferred it to start with, and that is a result of chronic underfunding of the National Park Service over a long, long period of time.
By allowing SRP to explore construction of additional facilities, H.R. 1607 is an important step in the right direction.
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