that is exactly what I am talking about. The gentleman is talking about a 1-year bridge. What he is forgetting is that from 1980 up to until 2 years ago, the Department of Education had major, major, major reductions. If the gentleman is going to compare apples to oranges, let us do it over the decade not over the nanoseconds.
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