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And stop all of these wonderful other countries from coming in and killing our companies and our workers. [ applause ] you'll be seeing that very soon. the steel folks are going to be very happy. up to 25% of the nation's energy cargo relies on these channels. and the refineries along their shores. but these critical corridors of commerce depend on a delapdateed system, and their condition is in very, very bad shape. it continues to decay. capital improvements of this system, which is so important, have been massively underfunded, and there is an $8.7 billion maintenance backlog that is only g...

Backlog that left our national parks with toilets that don't flush and pot holes, it found money for sending a park ranger to judge an film festival and antique car show in michigan and wine taste nothing howard jarvis. and found stains on the st. louis gateway arch but none of the money cleaned up the stains. >> the monuments and memorials on the national mall don't take care of themselves. i have employees that clean the restrooms and clean up the messes behind the public and pick up trash. >> and the problem is congress. congress is adding things in the parks that are not significant in ter...

Monuments closed. wasteful spending by congress forced the national parks service to delay much needed maintenance. we have more from doug. >> alisyn, the new report from senator tom coburn shoes the purchase of federal land and our treasured national parks are falling in disrepair and neglect. it is top heavy with bureaucracy and management and short on results. >> this is an agency that spends 650 million a year in administers a budget. that is outlandish. they have plenty of ways to stream line their processing and actually put more money in the deferred maintenance. >> coburn said despite ...