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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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