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So it would be safe to say that these Americans would be the ones who stand to benefit the most from an increase in American made oil and natural gas production?

I would appreciate if you would look into that situation.

I am very much concerned about those tickets for that particular night, especially this woman.

I encourage that, as you are making a criteria for how to judge those in the future, I think that is very wise.

Fortunately, I was on official business.

Protecting the core mission of the Park Service means that at a time of fiscal constraint, we must make choices.

Protecting the core mission of the Park Service means that in a time of fiscal constraint, we have to make choices.

This is a challenging time for the Federal budget, just as it is for family budgets of millions of Americans.

If we don't do that, then there is no purpose for having national parks.

The core mission of the Park Service is to protect the great natural and historic components of our National Park System for the enjoyment and use of current and future generations of Americans.

In the Constitution it says that certain things are self-evident. And what are the things that were self-evident in the Declaration of Independence? ... our Revolutionary War was not about taxes being too high. It was, not as some…

I am going to have to interrupt both of you here on this. Time has expired.

Do you agree with the importance of the government to stand behind its contracts with private individuals and companies?

They are not artificial boundaries.

Do you believe that property lines are considered artificial boundaries?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you very much.

Would you provide a copy of the communications between DOI and EPA on this issue?

It would be possible in the future as you make those proposals to come to Congress; you could do that kind of analysis, right?

I could pull that up.

You are asking for an additional 15 million for NLCS. Is that directed at the office administration in Washington?

Oh, great. That is the best answer I have heard today.

This is, of course, a challenging time for the Federal budget, just as it is for family budgets and millions of Americans.

Locked up in the agencies you run is a vast amount of land with an abundant array of resources.

Thank goodness for that.