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Which brings me to the larger point as Senator Cotton and U.S. Rep. French Hill speak glowingly of the addition of a block of homes to the historic district’s boundaries.
The National Park Service doesn’t fall high on the list of priorities of the Republican Congress. Some of them want to sell off pieces of this national treasure. The Park Service has an estimated $12 billion maintenance backlog. Proposed cuts in the Trump budget for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency hold grave peril for the National Park Service — and, on down the line, including such small matters as grants to preserve facades of homes on Park Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.
So when Tom Cotton and French Hill issue flowery press releases about preserving history remember this: The rubber meets the road on spending bills for the National Park Service. Note their votes and words then.