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Susan Collins: “We put in placeholder language to prevent changes, but…”

Featuring: Susan Collins, Republican | U.S. Senate Maine

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2025 WMIF | Fireside Chat with Senator Susan Collins

Published | Video Starts at 19:20

And that's something that we would do with this new proposal. So how is it going to come out in the meantime? As this is being put together, We put in placeholder language to prevent changes, but that's not going to work. We need an alternative. This is a good alternative. And what I would caution all of you, every academic whom I've talked with has a great tweak for the proposal that Calvin's group has come up with. (19:20–19:28)

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Asserts that placeholder language was added to prevent changes to indirect costs, but it is ineffective.

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