• Remove limits on the size of the staff in the defense secretary's office;
  
• Streamline the defense secretary's ability to spend money on the missile defense program;
  
• Eliminate the requirement for the Defense Department to make periodic reports to Congress on a host of issues (the list covers about 100 pages), including the state of the B-1 bomber, which Rumsfeld contends has proved itself in combat.
  

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