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Authority. we don t yet have it from the house, so that we can get more marine guards. we can get more diplomatic security guards. the senate was good enough to put into the senate version of the sandy supplemental. it did not get into the house side. so we re still looking for the house to act. currently, the house has holds on bilateral security assistance, on other kinds of support for anti-terrorism assistance. so we got to get our act together between the administration and the congress. the cia has a black box budget, a secret budget that is at least partly secret, right, opaque, unquestionable. and even if we did know how big the intelligence budget was for the cia and the rest of the intelligence community in this country, rest assured that the only political impact of knowing that number is that someone in congress would insist that we double that number. the united states military has a budget so gargantuan that it roughly approximates the ....
Help us real locate funds. the senate has given us that authority. we don t yet have it from the house, so that we can get more marine guards. we can get more diplomatic security guards. the senate was good enough to put into the senate version of the sandy supplemental. it did not get into the house side. so we re still looking for the house to act. currently, the house has holds on bilateral security assistance, on other kinds of support for anti-terrorism assistance. so we got to get our act together between the administration and the congress. the cia has a black box budget, a secret budget that is at least partly secret, right, opaque, unquestionable. and even if we did know how big the intelligence budget was for the cia and the rest of the intelligence community in this country, rest assured that the only political impact of knowing that number is that someone in congress would insist that we double that number. the united states military has a ....
The senate has given us that authority. we don t yet have it from the house, so that we can get more marine guard. we can get more diplomatic security guards. the senate was good enough to put into the senate version of the sandy supplemental. it did not get into the house side. so we re still looking for the house to act. currently, the house has holds on bilateral security assistance, on other kinds of support for anti-terrorism assistance. so we got to get our act together between the administration and the congress. the cia has a black box budget, a secret budget that is at least partly secret, right, opaque, unquestionable. and even if we did know how big the intelligence budget was for the cia and the rest of the intelligence community in this country, rest assured that the only political impact of knowing that number is that someone in congress would insist that we double that number. the united states military has a budget so gargantuan that it ....
Of the sandy supplemental which passed on december 28th, but we were unable to get the language included in the house version. this is not new money. so, first and foremost, i would greatly appreciate this committee weighing in, working with your counterpart in the senate, give us this transfer authority otherwise we re going to be behind the curve again. secondly, i think it s very important to change the laws about best value contracting, versus lowest price technically qualified. by statute, the state department local guard contracts in dangerous places like libya, and everywhere else, except iraq, and afghanistan, must be awarded using a lowest price, technically acceptable selection process. we have requested a change in the legislation that would allow us to use some discretion to try to deal with the varieties and vagueries of ....
Included in the senate version of the sandy supplemental that passed on december 28th. we were unable to get that included in the house version. this is not new money. first and foremost i would appreciate this committee working with the counterpart to give us this transfer authority. otherwise we are going to be behind the curve again. secondly i think it s important to change the laws about best value contracting versus lowest price technically qualified. by statute the state department guard contracts in dangerous places like libya and everywhere except iraq and afghanistan must be awarded using a lowest price technically acceptable selection process. we have requested a change in the legislation that would allow us to use some discretion to try ....