Just outside of Hot Springs National Park, a field hearing was held Friday (June 12) by members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources who heard testimony and advocacy for passage of the Great American Outdoors Act 250. The bipartisan bill would reauthorize a law passed by Congress in 2020 that was designed to protect public lands and repair aging infrastructure. U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, who chairs the committee, invited members from around the country to his district.