chairman of the house education workforce committee what are you doing to take action to cut some of this waste and save some of these tax dollars? >> one of first thing we did when we saw the duplication and number of programs was look at the number of educational programs if the elementary and secondary education act, no child left behind. there are more than 80 of these programs. we introduced legislation and brought it to committee. it has passed the committee to eliminate 42 of those programs. some are redown dan. some haven't been funded. -- redundant. some been funded, some to a higher level we are trying to get rid of some of this waste. we'll be taking it up on the floor of the house to eliminate half of those programs in k-12 education. >> the gao as we recall recently found billions of taxpayer dollars are being on duplicative and redundant