WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Angus King issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Subcommittee on National Parks, is leading a group of his Congressional colleagues in objecting to the Trump Administration'sproposed plan to illegally construct a "Triumphal Arch" without congressional approval. In a letter (https://www.king.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/sen_king_letter_to_burgum_re_arch.pdf) to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, the Acting National Park Service (NPS) Director and the Superintendent of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, members of both the House and Senate demand the Administration suspend the plans for construction of the arch, as p...