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Thank you very much, Senator Nelson.

And that raises the equity issue, it seems to me, because if there are a lot of people who are getting their transportation paid for by the government, who would have paid for that mass transit from their own pay, where you have other folks in other parts of the country without mass transit who work for the Federal Government who do not have that benefit, it seems to me there is an inequity there.

I think that you made reference, Mr. Gimble, to an audit by the Department of Defense Inspector General back in 2003 which said that 'controls over the transit subsidies program within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Defense Logistics Agency needed improvement'

But it is not income to the employee?