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John Cornyn: “If there's some way for us to make that in some way…”

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With that, I yield back to the Chairman. Let me just say, Senator Whitehouse, the legislation that you and Senator Grassley passed that treasury is not enforcing is very concerning to me. And If there's some way for us to make that in some way compulsory rather than optional, I'd love to work with you on that. I would very much look forward to that and I thank you for the kind offer. Maybe you can explain to me how we can actually accomplish that, but I'm happy to work with you on it. (15:18–15:28)

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Suggests making the enforcement of the legislation compulsory rather than optional.

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