On the recordJuly 24, 2013
we shouldn't be doing that when we can't take care of the ones we've got
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congress.govwe shouldn't be doing that when we can't take care of the ones we've got
Coburn argues against land acquisition without proper maintenance of existing lands.
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People worry to death about hearing from the IRS, thinking, 'Maybe my taxes were not right.'
We have something we call 'maintenance of effort' that we use in other programs, educational programs, when there is Federal money, we say to States, 'You have to maintain effort.'
I just do not think it works. And I want to be humane. We have a moral obligation to the least of these, folks who do not have a place to live, but there has got to be a better way to do this.