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Oral testimony and statements for the record , or written comments in response to a request for comments by the Committee , will be accepted only from citizens of the United States or corporations or associations organized under the laws of one of the 50 States of the United States or the District of Columbia , unless otherwise directed by the Chairman of the full Committee or subcommittee involved . The work requirements of the original legislation would be clarified by allowing States to treat 2-parent families with a disabled parent like a 1-parent family by reducing their hours of work ; by permitting States to exclude Indians covered by a tribal work program from their work participation rate calculations ; by allowing parents in 2-parent families to share the hourly work requirement ; by expanding the trigger that allows States to count up to 12 weeks of job search ( rather than 6 ) toward fulfilling the mandatory work participation requirement ; and by making some changes in the way States must allow teen parents to fulfill the work requirement by participating in education . Finally , continuing population shifts to the more pest-prone sunbelt States should increase the number of households in need of pest control . Currently , most States use judges as presiding officers in the majority of contested paternity cases . I have always been a strong advocate of State flexibility , and I believe this new waiver authority could revolutionize service delivery by allowing States to design creative new strategies for assisting families .