i want to thank our witnesses for being here today, including national park director jonathan jarvis, deputy inspector general mary kindle, whose office has issued many of the reports we will be discussing today. for example, the inspector general's office has identified an instance of contract steering at the denver service center, the unauthorized purchase of automatic weapons at the mojave national preserve. and the improper use of government housing at yellowstone national park. as a result of the inspector general's work, we also learned that director jarvis violated federal ethics rules when he wrote and published a book without clearing it through the department's ethics office. although he does not appear to have benefitted financially, he showed contempt for the government's ethics rules when he told the inspector general's office that he probably would do the same thing again. that is amazing. that he would do it again today, because he has, and i quote, always pushed the envelope, end of quote. you know, the chairman talked about morale, talked about the public's confidence

jonathan jarvis addressed the allegations and discussed efforts to prevent sexual 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 doesn't work when you have multiple cases of long-standing 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 if not

will speake rogers at a press club luncheon and on august 1, jonathan johnson -- jonathan jarvis, thetor of the parks service will address the club. i. would like to present you with the traditional press club mug [applause] >> this is why i was chuckling earlier. have you seen terminator two? are you thinking that cars to become smarter than us? >> know, i have not seen terminator 2, they will be smarter than us, but i am not afraid of it. it will be a good thing. [laughter] >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to thank the staff of the journalism institute. thank you for being here, we are adjourned. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

jonathan jarvis addressed the allegations and discussed ef