I am glad to hear those are the kind of decisions--we spent $500 million on a cost-plus contract that got us nothing on a handheld device for the Census, and nobody was held accountable for it, nobody got canned.
Coburn criticizes wasteful spending on a failed Census contract.
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We have a very serious problem from the point of view of deterring particularly a country such as Iran or North Korea.
People--if they are not being held accountable, they do not want to be held accountable--and transparency is what holds them accountable.
Right now, the unfunded liabilities of this country, with its debt, are $142 trillion.
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