The Fund draws from 30 years of mineral revenues (FY 2018-FY 2047) not already allocated by law.

The Subcommittee meets today to hear testimony on two bills that seek to reduce the National Park Service's $11.6 billion deferred maintenance backlog.

This responsibility requires active management--not benign neglect.

We took these lands into trust for the American people's 'use, resort and recreation.'

I think the numbers that we heard from CAP are misleading when they are talking about $1.9 billion in critical systems.

What do you think is better, water shortage or water abundance?

We set three over-arching objectives for Federal lands: to restore public access to the public lands; to restore good management to the public lands; and to restore the Federal Government as a good neighbor to those communities impacted by…

breathtakingly bad public policy that has made it impossible for us to meet the water needs of Californians.

We imposed laws years ago that have made the management of our forests virtually impossible, all in the name of improving the forest environment.

I think it is time to act. And this body can be enormously helpful in that effort.

The point, though, is it is spending in general, whether it is discretionary or mandatory.

I wish we had politically neutral scores and bias and all that, but I do not think we do.