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The Year of the Moderate, Part II

As House Democrats move forward with their health care overhaul, 22 Democrats — 21 of them freshmen members — have announced their opposition to the upper-income tax hikes party leaders hope will fund the proposal, The Hill reported today.
That strategy, the Democrats wrote in a July 16 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), would [...]


Gregg: Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Reform

Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, is well known on Capitol Hill for his harsh criticisms of anything tax-hike related, including the possibility that Democrats would allow expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts on the nation’s wealthiest people. Yet here’s Gregg today telling MSNBC that a new [...]