Robert Gates: “The Department plans to buy 52 GBIs, 30 of which will be operationally deployed, 4 of which will be held as operational…”

I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And…

it's a terrible way to budget. I mean, it is a gimmick.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

No more continuing resolutions.