The fact that our largest Federal department with nearly a $700 billion budget still cannot comply with the law after several decades is a failure that rests squarely on us, the Congress.

How can that be? Tell me about that.

Again, I understand. The accounting department is going to have to account for it in some way.

Get off of this idea that we are not going to conduct an audit until we know we are going to have a clean audit, and instead, use an audit as a real management tool, which is what it really should be.

You need to use the audit as a tool.

Certainly in public companies, they have the necessary pressure.

We need to work hard with the Congress and the President to make sure it does not.

Why delay 3, 4, or 5 years?

How much of the Defense Department has undergone an audit, what percentage?

Is part of the problem there because as those systems are systemwide and they become massive, it becomes pretty difficult to get your arms around that?

I totally disagree with that assessment.

I do not see how spending money on an audit to determine how bad you really are is a waste of money.

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I mean, is the media value what you spend on it?

I do not think I can add a whole lot to that.

It says that not a single person has joined the Army National Guard as a result of the $136 million spent sponsoring race legend, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. over the last 5 years of recruiting new members.

That is marketing. What do you spend on recruitment?

I would hope they have done that. I mean, again, that is Marketing 101.

To me, this is gobbledygook and what you need to be looking at is pretty basic in terms of measurement of effectiveness.

Is the Administration at all, considering--I realize Keystone XL Pipeline is a different issue--but are we considering other pipelines to take some of the burden off the rail system?

We are not making it clear, though. We are not making it clear at all.

The economic approach is going to fail. So that is what I am saying. When the economic approach fails, then what do we do?

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The currency had already devalued before we ever instituted sanctions.

We threatened serious consequences with Crimea. They have done it.