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Last year's report identified 81 areas to make government more efficient. Congress and the Obama administration have implemented just four of those. There's been some progress on 60 items, and no progress on 17.
"Eliminating duplicative spending should be the easy part," said Coburn, but "Congress has done almost nothing to address problem areas GAO has already identified."
It's a bipartisan issue, said House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who will hold a hearing on the report Tuesday. "I have always said that the enemy isn't the Democrats, the enemy isn't the Republicans — it's the bureaucracy."
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No, Darrell. It's you guys.
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03-19-2012, 01:58 PM
GAO-billions in duplicate spending
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