Joe Neguse actually said...

"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 Se..."

"I will say I would be remiss before providing some opening remarks if I didn't recognize my good friend from Colorado on his recent announcement regarding his retirement from this august body."

"I certainly agree that oversight of this program's implementation is and should be a priority."

"So, we can talk here about deferred maintenance, but we are only repeating the problem by our appropriations decisions."