Angus King

Publicizing some of these lesser-known parks just to spread the visitation somewhat.

My concern is that we are still deferring maintenance.

Will you commit to working with Senator Cantwell and the park in the efforts to rebuild the visitor center?

If you could achieve interagency operability, you will have achieved a great deal.

One of the things that they are talking about is that mission is an important part of recruitment.

The National Park Service has lost almost 19 percent of its operations capacity since 2011

I have always thought a Waze for National Parks would be an important contribution.

We are still not where we should be, just going back to the staffing ratio to visitation of 2010.

We are investing also nearly $100 million in the FY24 proposed budget on the housing issue.

My final area of concern is housing--recruiting and housing relate, I know.

I hope to better understand why that is and if these subaccounts should receive greater priority.

It was not easy to get the Great American Outdoors Act through, and in this budgetary situation, I think it would be even more difficult.

I hope that is something that will be acknowledged and taken seriously because, again, we can work very hard here on permitting reform to shorten the term, but if you then have to tack on five years at the end because of this…

I may be the only Senator ever stuck in an RTO queue for a generating plant.

I hope that the FERC will encourage reconductoring and technological smart-grid enhancements before having to go to new rights-of-way.

I hope that is something that will be acknowledged and taken seriously because, again, we can work very hard here on permitting reform to shorten the term, but if you then have to tack on five years at the end because of this…

President Reagan said trust, but verify.

I hope that the FERC will encourage reconductoring and technological smart-grid enhancements before having to go to new rights-of-way.

I may be the only Senator ever stuck in an RTO queue for a generating plant.

I hope that is something that will be acknowledged and taken seriously because, again, we can work very hard here on permitting reform to shorten the term, but if you then have to tack on five years at the end because of this…

I give our grade on cybersecurity right now an incomplete. I think we still have work to do.

I may be the only Senator ever stuck in an RTO queue for a generating plant.

And I want to know what is being done for verification.

Is there a way that you can enforce that? In other words, if an applicant comes forward with a proposal for a new right-of-way, you can say, no, wait a minute, have you done these other less expensive and less intrusive steps first?

I hope that the FERC will encourage reconductoring and technological smart-grid enhancements before having to go to new rights-of-way.