The reduction is in overhead expense; it is not in labor. The definition the Senator is using is an across-the-board cut. That is not in this amendment at all. Does the chairman realize that the 5- percent reduction is in overhead--not direct labor, not actual employees, but the management costs to run the different agencies?
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