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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA)
18 Years in the U.S. Senate
Sen. Feinstein
is Chairwoman
of the Interior
Appropriations
S u b - C o m m i ttee. During her
time in the U.S.
Senate she has
b e e n a n a rdent supporter
of both urba n
parks and LWCF. She has served as a
visible champion for the beautification
and renewal of community parks and
has previously sponsored legislation
for full and dedicated funding for LWCF.
Sen. Feinstein also has the unique distinction of having a Skate and Recreation Park named in her honor in Orange
Cove, California

Rep. Raul Grijalva, (D-AZ)
6 Years in Congress
This nominat ion wa s re ceived from the
Arizona Recreation and Park
A ssociation.
Rep. Grijalva
is chairman of
the House subcommittee on
National Parks,
Forest and Public Lands and oversees
millions of acres of federal land. During his tenure as chair of the committee, Congressmen Grijalva has been a
staunch proponent of increasing funding for public lands and for policies that
prioritize the preservation of wilderness
and opportunities for recreation. He is the
lead sponsor of the National Landscape
Conservation System Act which would
provide permanent congressional recognition of the Bureau of Land Management's
National Landscape Conservation System
and author of the House version of the National Park Service Centennial Initiative.
This bill would provide the National Park
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Service $1 billion over a 10-year period
to fund signature projects in the National Parks in advance of the 2016 NPS Centennial. Rep. Grijalva is a rising national
environmental leader who, after only two
terms, was appointed to follow in the footsteps of the highly regarded and longtime
Arizona Congressman, Morris K. Udall, as
Chairman of the House Natural Resources
Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests,
and Public Lands, where he has passed a
landmark 75 bills through the House. He
also has signed on to the FY 2010 LWCF
Dear Colleague letter.

Rep. David Price, (D-NC)
20 Years in Congress
Rep. Price sits on
Interiors Appropr i a t i o n s S u b com m it tee a nd
has been a strong
voice in support
of parks and recreation f u nd i ng
priorities. Over
the years he has embraced the entire
public parks and recreation agenda as a
whole. He has good relations with the local parks and recreation community in
his district. He has been a strong consistent supporter of LWCF, UPARR and
NRPA physical activity priorities. In relation to the NRPA Platform, he signed on
to the LWCF state assistance Dear Colleague letter and the Urban Parks Dear
Colleague letter for FY 2009 as an appropriator. For FY 2010 he made an official request to subcommittee to fund
LWCF state assistance at the NRPA requested level of $125 million. Rep. Price
was also a fearless ally in N
- RPA's fight
to ensure the Coburn language was not
adopted during conference negotiations
of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He was also co-sponsor of the
Play Every Day Act and the Impact Act in
the 110th Congress, both of which were
NRPA endorsed anti-obesity legislation.
Additionally, Rep. Price was a co-sponsor
of the Conservation and Reinvestment act
of the 107th Congress.
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