Jody Hice: “I think further oversight of the National Park Service is desperately needed.”

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 225, nays 204, not voting 3, as follows: [Roll No. 432] YEAS--225 Adams Aguilar…

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, this is a good bill. I urge my colleagues to support it, and I yield back the balance of my time.

This issue, for the most part, should be left with the people and to the political processes the people have devised to govern their affairs.

Let me begin by stating clearly that I oppose the underlying bill here. Some of my Democratic colleagues claim that there is no such thing as a deep state, that there are no problems that we have within our Federal employee system. But…