02/14/2011
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"Why should the taxpayers not know? Why should the average citizen not know what the cost of a--whatever--how many tens of billions of dollars--$80 billion to $100 billion program?"
"But it also seems that the problem is increasing--according to these Governors--rather than decreasing."
"You are not serving the Nation or the taxpayers if they do not know how much of their taxpayer dollars are being spent."
"I think it was important that we have a capability."