Ken Calvert actually said...

"I have been working on this since I have been in Congress, 25 years, and I would like to get it done in my lifetime."

"We had those discussions often about the Harbor Maintenance account, and also about maybe expanding the definition of the Harbor Maintenance account to go beyond the port facility."

"H.R. 295 would reduce our defense civilian workforce by 15% by FY 2028 through the flexibility of attrition as well as giving more weight to performance in a Reduction in Force."

"Budgets can be values-based documents without being ideological manifestos, and I would hope that the burden of governing fosters a sense of pragmatism about the value of government investment."