$400,000 for a sculpture of an albino camel staring in the eye of a needle in Pakistan.

I see that as a growing trend, and it is a dangerous one to have so many lines off-budget.

Thank you for the testimony.

Let me talk about OCO, Overseas Contingency Operation funding.

Really, when we are putting amounts off-budget, and continuing and growing OCO accounts, and we have in the base budget some of these programs, to justify that to our constituents, the taxpayers, is a bit tough.

the plan developed in 1990s that just do not apply today.

It is not a solution for everything, but it should help a lot.

I can not tell you how many small business entrepreneurs tell me when they go to hire for a position, that they can not find people that can pass the drug test.

This heroin epidemic is a big and growing problem as we have seen in the statistics.

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