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
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It is about an hour. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] not only grown gray, but almost blind in the service of this museum. Exciting toibly welcome joanne freeman. I have gotten to know her when we were both graduate students, if you can imagine us in our 20s. I dont know how i got in to yale, there were a lot of smart people. Was already had and shoulders above everyone else, and was already talking about this founding father guy, Alexander Hamilton. The rest of us were come on, that is boring. [laughter] but there were lots of pressing things about her work as a scholar. Her first work was published in 2001. Does this sound relevant today . A rousing discourse on the utopian republic. She has gone on to edit several works that are letters or writings of hamilton, one was named atlantic monthlys best book of 2001. I hope she t
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