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Steny Hoyer: The cost of the solution has escalated over the last 12 months, and I would say even over the last few months. My point…

On the recordJune 25, 1998
The cost of the solution has escalated over the last 12 months, and I would say even over the last few months. My point that I made before is this has happened in the private sector and the public sector. The reason for that is that the scope of the problem was not contemplated. There are computers in almost everything we use, including our automobile as we drive down the street, which apparently also has this glitch built into a number of the chips that control many of the systems in the automobiles. That is how complicated this system is. We are going to have to have computers amended. It is the same thing we do, on the one hand, we say reform; but on the other hand, we complicate the code.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the escalating costs and complexities of addressing a technological problem related to the IRS and tax reform.

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