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it is our watch now, and we expect to see progress, and the same 

 intensity and commitment that we had to try to get this thing done 

 from 1990, and now, and it is going to be back. So I hope all of 

 you and all of your departments realize you don't get a free ride 

 on this. 



And we will come back and we will revisit and we will reread the 

 words spoken today — the commitments, the promises that we are 

 going to solve this problem. I hope you take that as an invitation 

 to work with us. Even more importantly, this is a commitment by 

 us that we will continue to monitor and review this and make this 

 thing happen because it is just unacceptable that we have waited 

 this long to deal with an issue which the rest of the Nation clearly 

 wants solved. 



Thank you all for being here today. 



[Whereupon, at 11:55 a.m., the subcommittee adjourned, to re- 

 convene subject to the call of the Chair.] 



