I find that totally amazing, that they want to get back millions of dollars without having followed the proper procedure.

Well, the question is, Mr. Benge, do you need additional resources to enable this work to continue--particularly, as you say, in the coastal parks?

I think that is one of the concerns that we have.

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Well, you have people like Marjorie Taylor Smith and others of her ilk on the House side, you know, they -- what can I say?

Not at all. They're still totally afraid of former President Trump. It's just amazing. So they've handed over all this power to Trump to continue to hold sway over them. It's more than pathetic, it is cowardly.

But you know, I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the House members are doing, at least on the Senate side.

Of course, they will, because people who don't even want an independent commission are definitely going to paint a select committee doing the work as also partisan.

It's just as you say, it's their pursuit of herd immunity for what happened on January 6th. They're closing their eyes, ears, everything to what happened.