Joe Cunningham: “I was able to get $12 million through both the authorization process and appropriations to copy all defense maps. All…”

“I was able to get $12 million through both the authorization process and appropriations to copy all defense maps. All services for $12 million. That was a reduction of 1 to 100th of the cost. The office of Secretary of Defense held onto the money. They wanted to steal it. They wanted to reprogram it. They wanted to give it to NAVCOM. They wanted to do other purposes with it. And we fought for 1 year to get the money released so we could copy those systems. The services continued at the old rate of copying those services. They copied 10 percent of those maps, costing $16 million. One of the things we can do is reduce the size of OSD by at least 35 percent, and streamlining the bureaucracy in the military. That is just one of a thousand suggestions.”