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A one-week extension from this friday up until the 23rd or 24th, one will be having christmas eve together. but, i know that the committee's working favorably. i know that the chair ranking member and the senate on appropriation is working closely together. senator leggy, senator shelby, they've been working all weekend. i've been on the phone working on a number of issues all we can as well. hopefully we can come to an agreement. we heard, at a briefing, this last week on ukraine that the department of defense would be extremely hard if we are looking at a continuing resolution, flat funding,...

In front of us. >> greta: of this $70 billion currently that you were able to locate, sitting somewhere, never used -- this goes on for years, right? since 1996, the olympics. there is at least an effort, a bill that senator warner is introducing to give the ability to recover and return the mony? is that going to be a unanimous vote to do that? >> i doubt it. >> greta: really?! >> first of all, the agencies don't want to give it back. if you take it back, it lower the baseline so they daint don't get as much the next year. that's number 1. number 2, if you take it back, they can't reallocate ...

In front of us. >> greta: of this $70 billion currently that you were able to locate, sitting somewhere, never used -- this goes on for years, right? since 1996, the olympics. there is at least an effort, a bill that senator warner is introducing to give the ability to recover and return the mony? is that going to be a unanimous vote to do that? >> i doubt it. >> greta: really?! >> first of all, the agencies don't want to give it back. if you take it back, it lower the baseline so they daint don't get as much the next year. that's number 1. number 2, if you take it back, they can't reallocate ...