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Mike Turner: “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes.”

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes.
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Mike Turner
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Turner accuses the bill's authors of manipulating language to avoid tax classification.

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