Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g
Test. Captioning performed by vitac with Glacier National park totaling 131 million and yellowstone National Park which we share with wyoming, i think the senators of wyoming say its more than a share, they have most of it in wyoming, that backlog is growing close to 600 million. I wouldnt be surprised if that number perhaps goes up even higher. If left unchecked there will be impacts in our Outdoor Economy, there will be impacts to our gateway communities like gardner, like cook city and like others. Thankfully congress is working together and taking action again with this bipartisan restore our parks act, and im grateful Ranking Member on the subcommittee angus king and i and the rest of the committee are working in a truly bipartisan fashion to put legislation forward that would bring a solution to this problem. I hope we can pass this out of committee soon and ultimately send this to President Trumps desk. But its going to take more than just one to fix this issue. Mr. Cameron, Yel
Our attackers. Killing many palestinians in the west bank. Reporter hello, we have the latest from europe including greenpeace activists could face 15 years in prison for trying to crime an offcoast drilling unit in the arctic. President obama said diplomacy must be tested when dealing with Irans Nuclear program. There will be a success of World Leaders talking over the course of the next few days as well as mr. Obama, were expecting the new iranian president. There see the president of colombia. Were talking on syria, mr. Obama said the u. S. Was commit to finding a political solution. Our diplomatic editor reports. Reporter president obama came to the United Nations to layout his vision of the middle east and the u. S. future involvement in the region. A detailed explanation of involvement in syria, the palestinianisraeli Peace Process and iran. Were encouraged that president rouhani received from the iranian people a mandate to pursue a more moderate course, and his statement of an
World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Adding New Raid and World Buff in Phase 3 gamerant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gamerant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.