Bandaging the Bureaucracy in Plenty of Red Tape: Capitol Punishment
The hearings were inspired by some statistics his staff dug up including the fact that whereas in 1966 it took 7D days to process a public worksÛªgrant for hard-hit unemployment areas, it now takes 348 days.</br></br>A federal highway program which once took six months to start after the plans were formulated, now takes six years.	(</br></br>The big question that Congressman Wright has been trying to answer is: ÛÏHow does the government manage to do it?Û</br></br>What Congressman Wright doesnÛªt know is that there is an entire government department devoted to finding new and more efficient ways of delaying federal programs.</br></br>One of its major trouble shooters is Archie Falstaff, who has the title of Inspector General, Red Tape and Paper Shuffling Division GS 4.