Rep. Heck: Get Rid Of Duplication In Federal government

From the Las Vegas Sun: Earlier this month, the government’s General Accounting Office released a report showing in stark numbers what many lawmakers have long complained of: that there is an excessive amount of duplication in the federal government.
Today, Nevada Rep. Joe Heck decided to take a legislative step to try to undo that pattern.
Heck introduced a bill Thursday afternoon to institute a reckoning any time Congress authorizes new spending, in the form of a stop-gap check to ensure that the work of that new initiative isn’t already being done elsewhere.
Heck’s measure would require that committee report -- an official paper that’s drafted alongside bills to explain their details and intention -- include “a statement of whether the program has similar or overlapping objectives to any other program within the same federal agency.”

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/17/joe-heck-introduces-bill-reduce-duplication-govern/

Well, it seems like it can come none too soon. From arms and the law, via Dad 29: It brought to mind what a local prosecutor suggested, decades ago. He suggested that was enormous duplication of SWAT teams. FBI has multiple, local based, SWAT teams. BATF has its equivalent, Special Reaction Teams. IRS, I'm told, has them. Agriculture, of all things, has at least one, with helicopter. (I know because a friend was a Justice of the Peace and signed off on some search warrants for food stamp fraud, and was astounded to find these perfectly ordinary warrants were being executed by SWAT teams with the helo hovering overhead. He asked a fellow what was the helo doing, it couldn't land with all the electrical lines around, were the men aboard going to rappel down? The answer was no, after the raid was over it'd go back to the airport. We just brought it along because some Congressional types had pointed out we'd never used it and why did we need it?
My prosecutor friend observed, yes, LE needs a SWAT team trained in its special skills. But why does each agency and local department need a separate one? Maybe IRS agents need to know tax law, and ATF firearms law, and Agriculture how you run the food stamp program, but why not just one SWAT team for all agencies (or one per region), and a single local one for all localities in the area? http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2011/03/gao_report_on_g.php

Yep, just we need an IRS and an Dept. of Agriculture SWAT teams. Probably need them for rogue cows.