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Both are former administrators of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the US Office of Management and Budget . These are not issues that can be addressed in a year or even a presidential term . As the seniormost procurement policy officials in the first Bush and the Clinton administrations , we both agree that this is a golden opportunity to launch a bipartisan effort to go beyond sensationalistic hearings and work constructively to improve a system that is responsible for spending 40 percent of the discretionary budget . That it was not the case , however , my precipitous downfall gave testimony enough ; why it was not so , can only be explained by a reference to those possible geological disturbances to which I have formerly alluded . Both of North Korea 's neighbors and major trading partners fear a chaotic collapse in Pyongyang and are unwilling to cut the country off completely . One of these crucibles was nearly full of lead in a state of fusion , but not reaching up to the aperture of the tube , which was close to the brim . Jeffrey Liebman , professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and a former economic advisor to President Clinton , has joined with two fellow Social Security scholars in proposing a compromise Social Security reform plan — one that could potentially satisfy politicians from both sides of the aisle . Mr. Chairman , with your leave , I 'd like to just make one or two points about each of these options and then I 'm prepared to discuss all of them in more detail , as does the report I referenced earlier . But what about taking care of those soldiers when they return home ? The US cannot leave Iraq precipitously , but neither can it solve the problem on its own . Are those forces pitted in this vicious daily struggle of sectarian warfare going to be deterred by several thousand more American soldiers ? I afterwards carefully examined my head , shaking it repeatedly , and feeling it with minute attention , until I succeeded in satisfying myself that it was not , as I had more than half suspected , larger than my balloon . Second , there needs to be a boost in workforce training programs - - especially those geared for the new generation agencies are now hiring - - which provide the essential tools required for negotiating complex contracts and making sound business decisions . Now both are gone , and Bush is turning to troop increases . This is about all that I personally know of the now immortal Von Kempelen ; but I have thought that even these few details would have interest for the public . I think it ’ s important to make sense of these differences without necessarily passing judgment on which one is more or less important . ” Among the political benchmarks are provincial elections , enactment of an oil law that distributes oil wealth in a way that benefits the Sunnis , and reform of the de-Baathifcation policy , which has been so costly to those who worked in the Iraqi government under Saddam .