1.   His Justice Department has joined in the effort to block Ridge from consolidating the four overlapping agencies in charge of watching American borders.

2.   The leaders agreed to consolidate overlapping agencies and programs concerned with humanitarian relief, aid to poor countries and monitoring social and environmental conditions in foreign nations.

3.   The organization has overlapping agencies, an oversize bureaucracy and lavish and wasteful spending habits.

4.   But he insisted the United Nations slash spending, reduce its bureaucracy and streamline overlapping agencies.