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Talking Real Money
Famed Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen is often quoted as saying “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.”

It’s fitting, then, that it was in Congress’ Dirksen Building that recent hearings were held regarding waste in Federal real property – an issue Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) calls a “sleepy, non-invigorating area of government that is costing the American public billions.”