ex-traf dpant travel or conferences it i going to be affecting the company s bottom line. and individuals who take advantage of pretty rare in the government for someone to abuse taxpayer dollars and end up in trouble. in fact in most cases the incentive for agencies because of the budget process, is to spend every penny and sometimes more that congress prepare rates. they tried to do everything they could to cover up the october 2010 las vegas fiasco. now another conference, one-day, more than a quarter of a million dollars wasteful spending by $20,000 worth of drumsticks, $35,000 worth of picture frames, $104,000 to a consultant to do a one-day conference. now we re hearing there are dozens more and we re getting a little bit of information at a time. so we re going to drag in all of the parties that are involved and hear from the inspector general and get to