We will call the hearing to order today we are welcoming the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency to discuss the Response Recovery to hurricane harvey, irma and maria and the wildfires spread across california. Thank you for being here to join us. The magnitude of the disaster we are experiencing this year is unprecedented. I want to thank you and the thousands of personnel who deployed and continue to work tirelessly to help the communities and families get back on their feet in the wake of every instance of the devastating events. Congress has passed to emergency supplementals that are providing an additional 26 public and to ensure the ability to respond to the aftermath of disasters. Now its time to shift focus is from response to recovery and while some of these efforts are already underway there is a long road ahead. Please before i get to you i want to introduce the ranking member. Welcome mr. Administrator to your first appearance before the subcommittee. Th
Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i