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Jeff Miller, the bill's sponsor, said that "the TSA has been keeping the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters from your change purse to pay for their bloated bureaucracy" and raised the question of "If TSA representatives get to play 'finders keepers' with your hard-earned cash, what's the incentive
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