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
Should not be destroyed. 93 years was created ago to commemorate those who gave their lives in world war i. Second, it is no ordinary cross. Heart, atter, and its the American Legion symbol, it is gigantic. D database are the words valor, endurance, courage, devotion. Ofrd, not a single word religious content is anywhere from a rather at the base of the ninefoot plaque. And third, it is centered at Veterans Memorial park underneath a war memorial. Do you know how many other parts are like this one . I looked at pictures, and it is an unusual park, because there are major highways dividing it up. City oughtt like the to officially decide an area accomplish other plaques and declare it a part, but you cannot really tell that this cross is with anything else. Four, ae three or on one side, iy am told you cannot even get out to walk to this cross. Yal actually, you can. I disagree with that assessment. Sinceas been in place 1943. And you canmayor move it or you can transfer the land to pri
And i look at the historic Public Lands Bill passed in congress this week. Our guest will be dan puskar with the Public Lands Alliance. Host good morning. Welcome to washington journal. Congress warned the pharmaceutical industry this week that it may have to step in on one of the most talked about issues on american lives, the high cost of Prescription Drugs. Drug companies have argued they use their profits to innovate and improve american lives. Many americans agreed the cost of medicines is too high. What do you think . Should there be a federal role in lowering Prescription Drug costs . Should Market Forces continue to set the price for drug prices . We will talk about whether there should be a role in our government for lowering Prescription Drug costs. If you are in eastern or pacific time zones, call in at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, and you want to talk about whether there should be a federal role in lowering Prescription Drug costs, call in
Not too many have gone a read out. Tilde great conservatives assembled here what happened on this historic trip. We flew 42 hours to be on the ground for 39. That is an interesting way to travel. It was a great trip. I was extraordinarily proud of the president. He will be here tomorrow to tell you about it. All i can tell you is he did exactly what you and i would have wanted him to do. There was no way he could take the deal the north koreans offered him. He wanted to do a deal, but was not desperate to do a deal. Sometimes the only thing you can do in a negotiation is walk away. I think that was the right play. I think we all have a lot of questions following up. Just to get started, how did you get yourself wrapped up in this . You have this great congressional voting record, you are in a state seat, everything is going Mick Mulvaneys way, and what happens . The Freedom Caucus was getting boring. Anyway toas leaving run for governor. Roll labrador was leaving. We thought we would l