09/21/2011
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"Secretary Hale, what economic projections were used to justify this rate?"
"I need to make sure that we are not relying on speculative economic assumptions in order to justify budget cuts."
"There will be no mad rush to spend any funds."
"We're going to have to reprogram funds from somewhere--I don't know where, for sure yet--in order to meet those."