Ken Calvert actually said...

"the threats from Russia and China are real. We will soon face, for the first time in our history, two nuclear-capable peer competitors."

"the administration's proposed reduction of defense spending would prevent us from meeting the goals in our National Defense Strategy."

"the Biden administration has been dragging their feet."

"I struggle to think of another time in American history that we have asked the Guard to do the range of missions and at the tempo in which they have been operating over the past year."