You have certain marks, criteria you have to meet in order to keep getting existing money, avoid money getting clogged back, and to make sure that you're doing even better financially to the years into the future. When it's day 42 of a session and you haven't done the basic authorization, that raises a lot of red flags. Because if you have to meet benchmarks every year and you deduct 42 days out of a year where we don't have the federal money, your ability to meet those benchmarks goes down. (33:34–33:42)
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Asserts concern over the lack of basic authorization for the rural health transformation project by day 42 of the session.
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