But you are going to have to get your arms around those costs there because ultimately, as Senator Mikulski has pointed out, you come back up here to the committee and we have trouble finding money if the costs keep going up and up in not just your agency, but the FBI, everywhere else because we will be allocated a finite amount of money to deal with this.
Senator Shelby emphasizes the need to control costs to secure funding.
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