Sam Farr

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

Well, why did $33 million have to be returned?

So the question is for Congress to approve it or you can't do the co-location.

Isn't that part of your role under your responsibility to know?

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.

We finally got around to realizing that the military is an institution of government.

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

These discussions on our budget essentially are our household finance.

Just a suggestion on the Sodexo issue.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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.

I have to confess something here: I am an addict. I have been told that our office is one of the 10 top users of CRS.

You ought to be the champion for our own offices.

I am concerned about sort of the mission creep.

Just a question on how you do your professional sort of upgrading. I mean, there have been rumors around that among staff at around CRS is, in some reports, declining morale.

I hope that is not going to create light pollution.

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

It is a good thing we are leading by example.

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

If we are going to not allow anybody else to have weapons in this Capitol, you certainly shouldn't allow Members to have them.

I think that we have to set priorities.

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.

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

I think mission creep is, one of the criticisms I have of your team.

Where do those fees go now?