WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, leads a letter in demanding answers from U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum regarding the Department's rushed rehabilitation project of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
In the letter (https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/D693A3AD-80B3-44E5-8F0C-CE65577E4948), Heinrich and lawmakers note that the issues facing the reflecting pool are not simply maintenance concerns, but failures in project execution and government oversight.
Following the award of a no-bid contract and a drastic increase in project costs -...