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Friday, August 31, 2007

WSJ Finds Differences, Similarities in Candidates Tax Policy

The Wall Street Journal has a good article on the top presidential candidate's position on taxes. It's subscription only, so here's an excerpted version:

The 2008 presidential race is likely to produce a sharp debate over tax policy and its effects on individuals, estates, investments and corporations. But voters may have to wait for the general election to hear it.

That is because there is substantial agreement on the biggest policy questions within each party's field of primary candidates. For now, those broad areas of consensus have left intraparty rivals to bicker at the margins.



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Posted by Matt Lewis, 01:09:49 PM



Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Senate Schedules Floor Vote for Nussle

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that the Senate will vote on the nomination of Jim Nussle to be the new Director of the Office of Management and Budget on Monday, September 4 - the first day back from the August recess. Reid announced there will be three hours of debate on the nomination beginning at 2:30 pm. One hour each for the chairman and ranking member of the budget committee, and one hour controlled by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Sanders has announced a hold on Nussle's nomination because he has serious concerns about the nominee and his philosophical differences with the administration's fiscal policies. Sanders said:

President Bush is completely out of touch with the economic realities facing working families in America. Bush needs to hear the truth, not an echo. He needs a budget director who will make him face the facts, not fan his fantasies.





Posted by Adam Hughes, 05:49:06 PM




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