Tom McClintock

The only actual bona fide representatives of the community are the representatives the community has elected.

If a community, say, in my district were invited to participate in this process, to make concessions, with the expectation that they would be ratified into law and carried out, would you advise the people of my community to participate in…

Here is the double standard. If you are a private citizen and you have an accident with a backhoe, you go to jail for spilling 1,500 gallons.

If you are a private citizen and you have an accident with a backhoe, you go to jail for spilling 1,500 gallons.

The fact is this report failed to hold anyone accountable for the disaster.

Again, you have said that you do not have the authority to prosecute for negligence; yet your EPA vigorously prosecutes private citizens for negligence.

And that is standard for endowments of this type?

Sec. 402 will allow us to significantly improve our Corps, and our work for NPS and the nation.

This draft is a strong step for the NPS, its thousands of visitors, and partners like Corps that improve our parks.

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.

I want to get one more question in. It is about a complaint we are receiving a lot of, and that is the policy of individual parks to ban bottled water.

Yet, as we approach the Centennial, the Park Service faces considerable challenges to achieving the goals sets forth in the Organic Act, chief among them being the massive 11.5 billion dollar deferred maintenance backlog.

That is a lot of money that was put into the Park budget in a single year.

Now is the time for anyone with ideas on bolstering the parks in the centennial year to come forward with them.

This year-long celebration of our National Parks affords us a unique opportunity to reflect on the past, assess the present, and make adjustments for the future.

I cannot think of a better way to approach the next century of our National Park Service than to restore the vision of its founders.

Well, my experience is a lot of the retailers at the gateway communities know as much or more about the parks than the park rangers themselves.

The legislation includes a 5 percent cap for spending of the endowment.

Would these funds be used for land acquisition?

We also greatly appreciate Ranking Member Grijalva's leadership in previously introducing the National Park Service Centennial Act.

Is this editing and concealing of videos EPA's idea of transparency and accountability?

You say you are holding yourselves accountable, that you are going to take full responsibility. Does that mean that you are resigning?

There are two, basically. One is the fundamental competence of the EPA, and I think that speaks for itself in this incident.

You are sending people to jail over that.

How do you justify such a policy? ... putting the needs of 29 steelhead trout over the needs of 300,000 human beings in the worst drought in the recorded history of the state?