let me describe the recent assessment by the Department of Defense: For payments made within the Department of Defense for travel--for travel--as required under section 2 of the Improper Payments Information Act.
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the question is--and my advice to the Committee is to look at the roles that the Federal Government has taken over that would be better and more efficiently done at the State level.
So, what you are really doing is fighting a dark force that does not want the American people to know what is going on up here.
We have something we call 'maintenance of effort' that we use in other programs, educational programs, when there is Federal money, we say to States, 'You have to maintain effort.'
We have a very serious problem from the point of view of deterring particularly a country such as Iran or North Korea.
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