Gerry Connolly actually said...

I think it's really important the point you're making, because it's very easy, bureaucratically, to check a box...

We cannot afford to shortchange an activity so fundamental to our democracy and the sustained well-being of our communities.

This is simply not acceptable.

And one of the problems is, we've had bureaucratic inertia between two agencies that can't get their acts together on behalf of the men and ...