Cynthia Lummis

It's just a check-the-box, and the process is really broken.

It makes a huge difference. Just the change in the new Speaker, Speaker Ryan, has brought about that process of cooperation.

That is just a pro forma process and elevating form over substance.

Would you, in doing so, be willing to suspend timelines for implementation or releasing a final rule so you would have an opportunity to garner true cooperating agency status from the 9 of the 10 States that withdrew from the process?

Since there's such a difference of opinion about what transpired with regard to the job numbers, we feel that it would be important to clear it up by seeing the unredacted IG's report.

And if that's true, then there should be no problem releasing the unredacted version.

Are you aware of that report?

They did it to preserve their ability to engage in litigation.

Most of us are aware that, when the national parks began, it was the railroads who frequently built the beautiful facilities in these parks.

Could you please provide the committee with a complete list of projects that the NPS was able to fund using the $10 million from the Centennial Challenge Fund?

We will not take the word of Administrator McCarthy, that the compensation will continue.

I appreciate your accommodation. Thank you all for attending.

How does the Federal Tort Claims Act help the Navajo? They lost a huge amount of irrigating water, which can have long-term devastating effects if drought continues and they do not have the water now or in the future. How can they be made…

So now that we know that the Southern Ute tribe has already spent at least $170,000 responding to the spill----

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Director McCarthy, for being here.

I want to make sure that we are all aware that the reimbursement process is quite different; while it is costly, it is easy to do.

I never tire of that visitor experience. I have been doing it since I was a little girl...

I believe climate change is real, and I like to watch programs like 'Nova' which is on Public Television.

This graph speaks for itself. If you think we are supposed to be able to do 285 years, the fact of the matter is, we cannot do 20.

Yet Administration officials concocted the social cost of carbon in a process lacking transparency, lacking peer review, and, most offensively, lacking public input.

The cost-benefit analysis of proposed regulations will be impacted to the tune of billions of dollars under the social cost of carbon.

The social cost of carbon risks American jobs and our Nation's prosperity all in the name of questionable statistical models.

The social cost of carbon estimates that will come out of this Administration's attempt to monetize costs and benefits of carbon emissions are going to be incorporated into project analyses under NEPA.

I claim time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Wyoming is recognized for 5 minutes.

I would prefer to take it from the farmers who are desperate for water. These are people who have instituted conservation measures that cost them millions of dollars, changing their crops from things like lettuce and tomatoes to almond and…