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Jeff Merkley: “And if you do not have it, how did you possibly get to an overall score if you did not cost out the individual…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
And if you do not have it, how did you possibly get to an overall score if you did not cost out the individual provisions, right?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley questions the methodology behind the overall tax score without detailed provision costs.

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