Jeff Merkley: “Report language has no force of law.”

“Would my colleague consider it a solution if we were to take your report language, which does provide flexibility, and put it actually into legislative language? Because what we have learned is Report language has no force of law. But you do have flexibility in your report language. And if we could cop. The intent was to essentially give that a little more like.” (03:55–03:58)

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