mr. wahlberg for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thanks to the panel. director jarvis, in december of 2011, you issued an mps memo establishing a ban on plastic water bottles, sales in the national parks. is it true that most if not all of the parks that have implemented the plastic bottle water ban still sell other plastic packaged beverages, soda, enhanced water, juice, et cetera? is that still the case? >> yes, sir. they still do. >> do you feel it is safe and healthy to ban the sale of bottled water? >> when the public are provided an ample opportunity to get that water from a variety of sources which we've built in, that's a requirement of the policy. they have to have filling stations throughout the park in order for them to refill reusable bottles. >> can you say with absolute certainty that this ban on plastic water bottles has reduced the garbage in the national parks? >> yes, with certainty. absolutely. >> what analysis has been conducted? >> we collect data on our solid waste management. i don't have that in front of me, but i'd be glad to ge

mr. wahlberg. mr. wahlberg votes no. mr. mosh. mr. a mosh votes no. mr. deja vu a. mr. gaudi. mr. baron thought. massey. mr. massey votes no. mr. meadows. mr. meadows votes no. mr. desantis. mr. desantis votes no. mr. mulvaney. mr. mulvaney votes now. mr. buck. mr. buck votes no. mr. walker. mr. walker votes no. mr. bluhm. mr. bluhm votes no. mr. hise. mr. hise votes no. mr. russell. mr. russell votes now. mr. carter. mr. carter votes no. mr. hurd votes no. mr. palmer. mr. ballmer votes no. mr. cummings. mr. cummings votes yes. ms. maloney. ms. maloney votes yes. ms. norton. ms. norton votes yes. mr. clay. esther clay votes yes. mr. lynch. mr. lynch votes yes. mr. cooper. mr. cooper votes yes. mr. connolly. mr. connolly votes yes. mr. cartwright. mr. cartwright votes yes. ms. duckworth. ms. duckworth votes yes. ms. kelly. ms. kelly votes yes. ms. lawrence. ms. lawrence votes yes. mr. lou. ms. watson coleman. ms. watson coleman votes yes. ms. plaskett. mr. day sunday. mr. day sunday votes yes. mr. boyle. mr. boyle votes yes. mr. welch. ms. lujan grisham. ms. lujan grisham votes yes

mr. wahlberg? >> yes. >> mr. a mash? >> yes. >> mr. gowdy? >> yes. >> mr. fairnthald? mr. mass si? >> yes. >> mr. meadows? >> yes. >> mr. delaware san toes votes yes. mr. buck? >> yes. >> mr. walker? >> yes. . >> mr. blum? >> yes. >> mr. highs? >> yes. >> mr. russell? >> yes. >> mr. carter? >> yes. >> mr. grossman? >> yes. >> mr. herd? >> yes. >> mr. palmer? >> yes. >> mr. cummings? >> no. >> ms. maloney? >> no. >> ms. norton? >> no. >> mr. clay? >> no. >> mr. lynch? >> no. >> mr. cooper? >> no. >> mr. connolly? >> no. >> mr. cartwright? >> no. >> ms. duckworth? >> no. >> ms. kelly? >> no. >> ms. lawrence? >> no. >> mr. lou? ms. watson cole man? >> no. >> ms. plasket? mr. boyle? >> no. >> mr. welch. >> no. >> have all members voted? the clerk will report the tally. >> on this vote there are 23 yays and 15 nays. >> the ayes have it and is ordered favorably reported. without objection, motion to reconsider is laid on the table. sorry, we had already called the vo vote. understood. without objection, the motion is laid on the table. without objection to pursuant to clause 2-l, members

mr. wahlberg for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thanks to the panel. director jarvis, in december of 2011, you issued an mps memo establishing a ban on plastic water bottles, sales in the national parks. is it true that most if not all of the parks that have implemented the plastic bottled water ban still sell other plastic packaged beverages, soda, enhanced water, juice, et cetera? is that still the case? >> yes, sir. they still do. >> do you feel it is safe and healthy to ban the sale of bottled water? >> when the public are provided an ample opportunity to get that water from a variety of sources which we've built in, that's a requirement of the policy. they have to have filling stations throughout the park in order for them to refill reusable bottles. >> can you say with absolute certainty that this ban on plastic water bottles has reduced the garbage in the national parks? >> yes, with certainty. absolutely. >> what analysis has been conducted? >> we collect data on our solid waste management. i don't have that in front of me, but i'd be glad to g

mr. wahlberg: what is your statutory authority? i have 23 seconds. sec. king: i will be quick. in the four options described in the regulations, one of them is for the state to determine how it will approach the enforcement . the other three are offered as a means by which the state could accountability requirement which is in the statue. states could choose the fourth option which is state determined and that would go through peer review. we were careful as i have to ensure that our regulations are consistent with the letter of the law. history wahlberg: i still did not hear your stack -- statutory -- >> thank you. you have made some comments with regard to those students today. elo: on-- curb the proposed regulation and the second question on the guidance issued this morning. the statute clearly lays out a process first gold districts and child welfare agencies to develop an agreement for paying transportation costs for students in foster care who remain in their schools of origin. language, theat proposed regulations require school districts to pay for transportation costs w

mr. wahlberg. >> thank you for being here. the discussions, the questioning that's going on is important for us to do. northwest ordinance stated about education, religion, morally knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of man kind. schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. that's not in your u.s. contusion. that is in the michigan constitution taking high priority for the necessity of having schools and education encouraged so that people be happy and productive. and so our discussion today, as we've passed essa, was really intent to roll back, to roll back the power authority, direction, control of the federal government and to really give, as we've talked about at least in a bipartisan way, the fun quotient back, the exciting quotient back to educators in the classroom. school board members on the board, parents with dreams and aspirations for their kids to know that education is a neat, beautiful, fun and productive priority in civil