text: In todayÛªs challenging budgetary environment, strategic spending is more critical than ever before. This Subcommittee continues to find this AdministrationÛªs efforts to spend less where the proven benefits are exponential, and more on some of the same funding areas to maintain the status quo.   We will remind the Administration once again that our constituents expect us to make smarter, forward-looking decisions when investing their hard earned taxpayer dollars.