Consumer protection in financial peril that is an independent industry cannot be fired by the president it is not subject to the appropriations power as they are taking a number of actions that are outside of the public visibility for instance they are gathering financial records or creditcard records of hundreds of millions of americans with no discussion that than i could find and knows scrutiny or accountability for what these agencies are doing because you can see they are independent they are not part of the administration but on the other side you have the federal Communications Commission with neutrality it is widely reported in a cave out of the ftc and was directed by the president may be the president should direct the ftc but then there has to be some ownership of that. So there is a lot of examples of domestic overreach and not even owning that bennett hiding behind the various structures of bureaucratic independence which i think is quite troubling. I do think the problem
Saying we need a bigger coast guard, how do you feel about the resource picture now that the fy 17 budget request is in . You mention several of the new major investment strings underway. The growth of the structure and the readiness picture. What most challenges you at this point and executing all of that . I am immensely pleased with our acquisition budget. On the other side we have our operations in maine is, what our operations and maintenance, would cost to do operations and people from under that funding portfolio as well. Were not keeping pace. In fact were fact were not even keeping pace with budget control funding levels. Where funded below that level to sustainer operation so its great that were modernizing, the sustaining piece is still a bit of a challenge for me. Thats work that i need to do in demonstrating how critical that is because lets face it, ive been to enough commissioning ceremonies now more than i have decommissioning ceremonies, thats a good thing, more births
Miss kindle, i want you to weigh into this. You have a transcription . Or what was this interview with the director . We asked jarvis whether looking back he would have done anything differently, and he said, and then its quoted here, was that because its transcribed or was that a recording . A recording. When you asked about this by the Inspector General, this is what you said. Would i have done the same thing . Probably. I think i knew going into this there was a certain amount of risk. Ive never been afraid of risk. Ive gotten my ass in trouble many, many times by the park service, by not necessarily getting permission, ive always pushed the envelope. And then you go on from there. That is your quote, correct . That is my quote. And now youre apologizing because were essentially having a public hearing . No, i apologized a long time ago, long before this hearing. And i apologized directly to the secretary and to the leadership of the National Park service. And that was a mistake. An
Session. E to this we hope will be coming in. I know you are giving up your cocktail hour but we are going to have a reception right behind the black curtain here when our session is over. You are all cordially invited to that. I will make some introductions, a few remarks, and this is how we will proceed. After the introductions i will talk a bit about the theaboration and about promised report which was commissioned by the National Park service. Done by four members and issued a few years back. Rightanton here to my throughout in fort worth. He was recruited into a summer seasonal job while he was a houston. T that began a long career now stretching out some 54 years in the nations service. A stalwart member of the National Park service. He started at the bottom and grand teton National Park and worked his way up all the way to the top when president bill clinton appointed him the director of the National Park service from 1997 to 2001. Before that he was superintendent of National C
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