[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6898]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE STUDY OF THE STUDY OF THE STUDIES

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the military spends a lot of money 
studying, presumably, the effectiveness of military programs. In fact, 
there are numerous military studies of military programs. So many, the 
Department of Defense has commissioned a study of those numerous 
studies to see how much those studies cost.
  Stay with me, Mr. Speaker. Now, the Government Accountability Office 
has done their own study of the military study that is studying the 
cost of numerous military studies that are studying the cost and 
effectiveness of military programs.
  The GAO has concluded its study that the military study of the 
studies is incomplete, inconclusive, and inconsistent. So we really 
don't know how effective or costly those military studies are. 
Meanwhile, the cost of the GAO study has not been studied yet.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope this short study of the government's studies 
programs let's us all know how effective and efficient government 
bureaucracy actually operates.
  And that's just the way it is.

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