[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: August 9, 1994]
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      A $310 MILLION SECRET BUILDING: ABUSE OF TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, almost every day we see examples of how the 
Federal Government is simply out of control.
  Today's front pages carry a story about how one Federal agency ``has 
concealed from Congress the mushrooming cost of a $310 million compound 
it has been secretly building near Dulles Airport.''
  The Agency is the National Reconnaisance Office. This is an office 
overseen by the CIA and the Department of Defense. Both U.S. News & 
World Report and the Washington Times have recently run articles about 
how wasteful and incompetent the CIA is. Now we have another 
intelligence operation blowing over $300 a square foot for a palace of 
an office while hiding facts about it from Congress.
  Unelected Federal bureaucrats, overly protected by the Civil Service 
System, are wasting the peoples' money in almost unbelievable ways.
  We need a strong intelligence operation. But our present intelligence 
agencies did not even predict the fall of the Berlin Wall or the 
breakdown of the Soviet Union.
  We are spending billions and getting almost nothing in return.
  We need to greatly decrease the size of our Federal Government. 
Unless and until we do, we will continue to see abuses like this $310 
million secret building.
  Our bureaucrats are living royally while our taxpayers are struggling 
to get by.

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