We want to return more power and more influence and more responsibility to our embassies and to the regional bureaus that oversee those embassies. That's what this reorganization is about. The 15% you're referring to is after we've reorganized, we're going to ask the bureau heads and the assistant secretaries...to look at their bureaus and their operations and suggest to us 15% reductions. Suggest to us 15% reductions. Then we'll look at that. That's not an unreasonable number. But this is a reorganization that should have been done 10, 15 years ago. (14:48–15:03)
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