04/21/2013
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"Over the past 15 years, the department's footprint has had unprecedented growth and costs have soared."
"This approach will empower the Department from the ground up, from the bureaus to the embassies."
"Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed."
"The State Department had become bloated, bureaucratic and unable to perform its essential diplomatic mission."