William Helms: “All I want to do is put a hold on the current size of the bureaucracy at the U.S. State Department. My amendment deals…”

“All I want to do is put a hold on the current size of the bureaucracy at the U.S. State Department. My amendment deals specifically with the number of Assistant Secretary positions. Let me go down the list and see how other Cabinet officers or Departments handle their affairs, in terms of Assistant Secretaries. Let us see how many employees each Assistant Secretary is responsible for. At the Commerce Department, each Assistant Secretary is responsible for 6,372 employees; at the State Department, each Assistant Secretary is responsible for 702 employees; at the Defense Department, each Assistant Secretary has responsibility for 34,141 subordinates; at the State Department Assistant Secretaries are responsible for 702. At the Justice Department, each Assistant Secretary, or equivalent, is responsible for 4,660 employees; and I repeat the State Department, 702 employees. The Treasury Department, each Assistant Secretary is responsible for 25,247 employees; and I repeat that the State Department, each Assistant Secretary is responsible for 702.”