"Did you plan for this? Did you budget for this accordingly, or did you wait for the last minute and kind of take a wait-and-see approach?"
"I am sorry, I don't fully understand the reasoning behind the WIC program using an outdated set of dietary guidelines."
"On page eight, you mention an opportunity to reduce cost if we take congressional action."
"What is not mission critical?"
"We have to minimize the loss of personnel at all costs, but I cannot give you a candidate for a service to eliminate."
"In regards to the power plant, when was it constructed?"
"1910. I assume it was probably fairly inefficient when it was a coal-fired plant?"
"That puts us in a tough spot, thank you."
"Not only do we need to eliminate duplication within each office and departments, we also need to eliminate duplicative efforts across different legislative branch offices."