if we have a regular appropriation cycle that includes this money, it gives us opportunities through the hearing process, budget committee hearing processes, to actually scrutinize and scrub and see, you know, what worked and what did not.
Senator Flake emphasizes the importance of regular funding cycles for oversight.
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