Policy changes or administrative actions that would help resolve the controversy should proceed in parallel with any current or future scientific studies.

I'm deeply concerned with some of the conclusions that the NAS review came to as it related to Camp Lejeune, and specifically the water contamination.

Not to expand, to function, has been sort of the annual Mecca to the Hill, number 1 thing that the Park Service needed.

Only one of us though, can walk away with the prize and that's the Great Smokies.

I want to tell you how anxious I am to work with you in your new capacity.

The last time I looked at the plan it was the billion dollars plus plan.

is determined by new times, new technologies, new demographic realities, and new commitments to today's veterans.

So, is the lesson to Congress that if we are looking at divvying out stimulus money that is more immediate from a standpoint of its need, we probably should not do maintenance projects?

I appreciate that and I appreciate your diligence at making sure that communities get what, in fact, they deserve.

Any concern by you or any of your colleagues here today whether the $800 million threshold can be met?

I would like to know how many were over budget.