07/20/2009
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"I appreciate how the Treasury Department and bipartisan tax leaders in Congress have consistently spoken with one voice."
"I believe Section 602(c)(2)(A) is unnecessary and harmful to states and territories, and have introduced S. 743, the State Fiscal Flexibility Act, to eliminate the problematic and legally questionable..."
"I want to encourage you to be very restrictive in terms of the application of this prohibition and give the maximum flexibility to States and local communities as they administer these funds."
"the last thing we should do is put States in a predicament where they could lose the funding that was authorized by Congress to help them just because they want to manage their fiscal policy in a way ..."