Thank you for the work that you have done in exposing some of the challenges facing our National Park Service.
Mazie Hirono
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Mazie Keiko Hirono is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Hawaii since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 4, 2007, to January 3, 2013. Hirono is known for her advocacy on issues such as education, healthcare, and civil rights, often emphasizing the importance of public education and human rights in her public statements.
The President proposes to cut funding to NPS by almost $400 million and approximately 1,200 people would lose their jobs.
While I think it is great that your employees are now being able to report various kinds of workplace concerns that they have, sexual harassment and mistreatment, that is a very--how should I say?--very sensitive, underreported, kind of…
I think that in this area prevention is really important so there are any number of things that you can do, but a large part of prevention is that people need to know when their rights are being infringed upon and that there are very clear…
I do commend the National Park Service for undertaking some pretty basic kinds of steps to put in place training, including a very needed ethics training.
I think that working with their folks at headquarters--their superintendents, their regional directors--they're the people that are going to have to model the behavior in a very transparent and I would say, upfront and almost an aggressive…
I think that the budgets that are proposed for Fiscal '18 will make it much more difficult for the Park Service to take the right kinds of steps to respond to these issues.
Business is booming at our national parks, which just set a new record for attendance for the third consecutive year.
Well clearly this is not something that is going to change overnight, so obviously we are going to continue our oversight inquiries as to how you are doing, what further resources you need.
I would like to ask you how are you incorporating the shift to the Asia-Pacific as you consider expanding the fleet to deploy the number of ships you need?





