ne may assume that change is and yet reform flounders, whether it was at the pentagon under rumsfeld or the veterans affairs department under the current administration. i watched the v.a. for the past two years. secretary mcdonald's laws has changed and malfeasance and incompetence persist. the "washington post" published a shocking report that pentagon officials buried evidence of 125 billion in bureaucratic waste during 2015. for that horrific activity, they were the recipient of this month's golden fleece award by my office. to make it worse, they made the effort, according to "the post" of hiding this effort knowing it would be difficult for the congress to come together and cut their budget. clearly that is a problem with an unmanageable cabinet agency. i have seen this firsthand right in little rock, my hometown, where the center of the c-10 program is, where america's airlift, where the department of air force officials planned for years the transfer aircraft from the air force base in mississippi to little rock air rce base, basing it as a cost-saving initiative along with changes with $192 million across the five-year plan. and yet congress prevented this com