Ken Calvert

No doubt that your work has raised awareness on both sides of Capitol Hill...

This Congress is trying its best to stop your agenda, an ideologically-driven agenda hell-bent on shutting down the use of fossil fuels for energy production.

We are spending billions of dollars on Everglades restoration and then a species like this comes in and really puts that investment at risk.

No matter how much water is moving through the Delta, it seems, the fish always need more, and the Federal Government, hamstrung by the Endangered Species Act, gives it to them.

Every day that goes by not doing something, we just dig ourselves into a deeper hole.

Of course, it was signed into law by then-Governor Ronald Reagan.

We will do our very best to address the service's highest priority needs, but we also need to face our budget reality.

Few Americans would disagree with that assessment. Everyone loves our national parks.

Is it reasonable to expect that every employee, having line authority over facility inspections also have 100 percent inspection rate criterion in his or her annual performance evaluation?

This morning's hearing will address the important work of the National Park Service and its budget priorities for fiscal year 2017.

I am as outraged about this as you are.

We want to see you succeed. We hope that we can continue to be helpful partners...

I think it was Albert Einstein who once said, if you want to destroy the human race, destroy the bee population of the world, and it will all be over.

I cannot imagine a higher priority than protecting the health and safety of children attending schools.

This, as she has said, is clearly unacceptable.

Instead of harvesting El Nino rains to irrigate the Nation's produce and refill our reservoirs, the government is sending El Nino water underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and out to sea.

Obviously, EPA was signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

The topline message, Ranking Member, is that for law enforcement, we did not take a decrease over what we asked for in the 2016 President's budget.

Regardless of one's belief in the President's climate change agenda, his drive--your drive--to succeed has been devastating to the people of West Virginia and to the tens of thousands of others across this country who work to fuel this…

As a businessman, to me, there are ethical issues involved here by some concessionaire who took advantage obviously of not notifying you of this change.

As you know, many of my colleagues and I do not understand how the service can ban the sale of bottled water in the parks, which is arguably the healthiest option for park visitors, yet continue to sell soft drinks, juices, sports drinks.

I have gotten zero complaints from the American public about this. If anything, I have gotten thousands of support comments from the public about this direction in sustainability.

In my own home State, California, Cal EPA was signed into law by Ronald Reagan.

I am going to make a wild guess here that we are going to be level-funded in our allocation.

We have to get serious about this.