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The revelation that the General Services Administration (GSA) spent $823,000 on a conference in Las Vegas exposed waste on a grand scale â€" the colossal waste of time by members of Congress rushing to investigate what’s already been investigated and punish those already punished.

We all know what happened at the conference. Government employees hired a clown. They hired a mentalist (albeit not a very good one, since he apparently failed to predict the media and congressional frenzy that would follow). They produced videos gloating about their own extravagance.

But even if one assumes that there should have been no conference at all, and every penny was wasted, surely there are far better uses for Congress’ time than “investigating” $823,000 in waste, an amount aptly characterized by NPR’s On the Media as “less than a rounding error in the budget of the executive branch.”

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