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Warn the dire consequences and can't reach a budget. tom coburn is saying the administration should perhaps spend syme working on prioritytizing when it comes to spending. and points out that secretary napolitano is warning about having to scale back high priority missions instead of money at that provides grants for projects like the zombie apocalypse training event. we told, but this, remember this? that you pay for? screaming] >> oh, my, sometimes in the show you wish were you making it up. but this is real. and we pay for it. the government waste folks joins us live to discuss washington's...

Could be a blast. >> the woman who resigned as the gsa administrator accused to sitting on the report on the conference for 11 months offered this explanation of how it grew out of control. >> the western region conference and economical training event in the late 1990s had evolved to a raucous extravagant arrogant, self-congratulatory event that belittled federal workers. >> those attended the las vegas conference were given monogramed black jack dealers jacket. tourist coffee table book signed by neely and more. >> were stimulus dollars used for this? we have a problem that all the items are...

>> mr. chairman i respectfully decline to answer based upon my 5th amendment constitutional privilege. >>reporter: another question asked by many in the hearing room, was how he, at center of this controversy, was given a $9,000 bonus. >>shepard: wow. mike, he didn't speak but some of the others did. what did they give for an explanation? >>reporter: they suggested with the transition of leadership between administrations and administrators leashing perhaps some things fell through the cracks. here is the former administrator's explanation. >> the western region conference and economical train...

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