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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

Can you answer that question on the budget neutral, whether it is budget neutral or not?

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I remain convinced that we could go back and try to reform that program and make sure that if it were reinstituted, we could keep young people engaged.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

Perhaps that could be some report language just to explore it.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

Yes, I presume that the decision to move sort of out of the Washington area was a strategic one, plus probably cost-effective for real estate purposes.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I hope that we can use--I mean, the dream here, the idea is, if we are going to move one, let's move all, and let's all be in one place.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I think it is time that we revisit that.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

What triggered it is this magnetometer, putting it in the Longworth Building, in the garage. And it just seemed, in looking at it, is why here, why now, why this place?

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I hope that is not going to create light pollution.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I am getting congratulated by everybody. Half of them are friends and the other half of them are congratulations and good riddance.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

These discussions on our budget essentially are our household finance.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I would love to have this budget for my town, where we really do have threats.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I think that we have to set priorities.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

So here we are going to take all our staff, and you have got to go through double, triple inspection, but Members can walk in here with a weapon and you don't even know if they have it, to get away with it.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

Just a suggestion on the Sodexo issue.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

It is a good thing we are leading by example.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

I think I was agreeing with your suggestion that we ought to lead by example.

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Sam Farr
@samfarr· Democratic · CA· Feb 29, 2016

But not our staffs. Haven't had a COLA increase in 5 years.

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