Most of us think government's longstanding advice on good nutrition should come from the conclusions of a deliberative scientific process weighing top expertise in nutrition, public health and human physiology, not from negotiations with special interests.

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When the State Department decided that those concerns were legitimate and there needed to be an alternate route, that began another process, and this process requires the careful weighing of a variety of criteria, and that has always been the case.

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The process included physical verification, weighing, measuring, length, status, nature, value, provenance, description and digital photography of each object.

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So I think this is a long process that will involve stakeholders at all levels with both political parties weighing in on their ideas about how we meet the goal of reforming the way corporate taxes are done, lowering that rate, but keeping it deficit neutral.

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