"Our country's too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once."

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More Washington rules and regulations are not the answer.

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The tapes also originally aimed to prove that interrogators were following new rules Washington had laid out.

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Such a Medicaid fee typically would need authorization from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington, and federal rules could prevent Arizona from enacting it.

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