arrogance by a cabinet officer to say they have enough money to do something and don't have money after the continued resolution runs out, congress gives the money and congress can start giving money in the proper way. specific authorization and appropriations, specific projects, so, you know, can we hold hearings on, for example, this bending up of the health care curve? you know, even aarp is finding out they have a double-digit increase in the cost of the health care for their employees and what a surprise. that is one thing we can do and the other thing, when you asked paul and eric, something about, how do we cut the $100 billion, we talk about earmarks, and that is a buzz word. administration earmarks, they call them competitive grants. that is where we have a slush fund like the stimulus to the president, and they come up with who they like and where they like them and issue the money and congress has to start saying, no. you figure out who wins the competitive grant. you come back to us, and say i would like to award this amount of money for this. instead of a budget with blank