"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."
"It is time for the Pentagon to make permanent reductions in a thoughtful manner that will result in a more efficient civilian workforce."
"Republicans must do whatever we can to reduce unchecked and inappropriate spending and I believe we have an exciting opportunity ahead of us to submit a fiscally responsible federal budget to the Amer..."
"We have over a billion-dollar need, and we need to come up with, like you mentioned, a DOD kind of program."
"If we ever get around to an infrastructure bill, that we have a section in the bill for road construction throughout the United States on Indian reservations to rebuild those roads."
"We hate to see kids going to schools that are in a difficult situation."
"I am going to take up Mr. Cole on his offer to work together to see if we can get some additional dollars any way we can get it to take care of some of these challenges."
"I'm sure Mr. Simpson shares your hope that we can get the wildfire bill passed in this Congress."
"I hope we can come to what we call around here a budget agreement."