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Angus King

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Angus Stanley King is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Maine since January 3, 2013. A member of the Independent party, King previously held the position of Governor of Maine from January 4, 1995, to January 8, 2003. Throughout his political career, he has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and renewable energy, often advocating for bipartisan solutions to complex problems. King is known for his moderate stance and willingness to work across party lines.

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Jul 27, 2021

The green mountain is the visitation at Yellowstone. The red dotted line is staff levels.

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Jul 27, 2021

And by the way, it would be nice if it were in multiple languages.

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Jul 27, 2021

we want visitation to our national parks, but we do not want the visitation itself to impair the experience of the national parks, or the park itself.

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Jul 27, 2021

Can we think about that policy in terms of promoting the lesser-used national parks?

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Jul 27, 2021

However, at the same time, we must recognize that overcrowding in the parks itself can degrade the natural resources and wildlife that these units are designed to protect.

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Jul 27, 2021

The law of supply and demand doesn't apply here. The demand is there but we can't just go out and build more Glacier Parks.

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Jul 27, 2021

Does that have a feature like Waze, the app that tells you where the congestion is?

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Jul 27, 2021

Thank you. I think the result of what you are saying is that more study is necessary to examine unintended consequences.

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Jul 26, 2021

I think what's going on is accurately characterized as atrocious and genocide.

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Jul 20, 2021

Eighty-five percent of the targets in cyber space are in the private sector.

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Jul 20, 2021

I believe that the next Pearl Harbor, the next 9/11, will be cyber.

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Jul 20, 2021

I always talked about it with Tom Cotton, King Cotton.

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Jul 20, 2021

We are the most wired country in the world; that is good. But we are also the most vulnerable country in the world.

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Jul 20, 2021

This is a potential nightmare, but it is one that we can wake up from if indeed we wake up.

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Jul 19, 2021

We've all thought of conflict over a thousand years as armies against armies, navies against navies. But now with the advent of cyber warfare, the private sector is the front line.

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Jul 19, 2021

This security clearance problem is a serious problem. It's a national security issue because in my view the biggest problem is lost opportunity.

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Jun 24, 2021

I rise to talk about a moral obligation and a national security obligation. We are leaving Afghanistan after 20 years, the longest war in the country's history. During the entirety of that 20 years, there were brave people in…

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Jun 16, 2021

So if there were more commercial, market-based policies being applied in our forests, we'd have a healthier forest, would we not?

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Jun 16, 2021

30 percent of the forest land in America is federal. 70 percent of acreage burned last year was on federal land. There's something wrong here.

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Jun 16, 2021

I appreciate your extraordinary service and your straightforward testimony here today.

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Jun 16, 2021

One of the things I have learned in studying the issues of the forest is that a growing forest sequesters more carbon than a mature forest.

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Jun 16, 2021

I am introducing legislation to have a Blue Ribbon Commission to examine the inventory process to see if it needs to be changed.

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Jun 16, 2021

So I think from a point of view of carbon, if greater harvesting... can actually contribute to the sequestration of carbon.

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