If you do not like what is in this bill and you want to solve the problem, you cannot just complain about what is in the bill. You have to come with an alternative solution that accomplishes the same goals.
Coburn stresses the importance of providing alternative solutions to the proposed bill.
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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.'
People worry to death about hearing from the IRS, thinking, 'Maybe my taxes were not right.'
As stewards of the Federal purse, we should be ensuring that we are doing all that we can to save taxpayer dollars and create efficiency in Government.
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