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Two bills introduced in Congress recently stake out rival positions on a key issue related to health care reform. Which approach ultimately prevails will help determine whether the pharmaceutical industry maintains the support that Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler voiced Wednesday for President Obama’s plan’s to overhaul the nation’s health care system.
Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) [...]

What was bad news for Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, Tim Geithner and now Hilda Solis might be good news for the federal government.
Their recent tax woes — by which we mean their getting caught not paying their (or their spouses’) taxes — mean that the IRS is probably right about (or even underestimating?) the extent [...]

The CEO of Netflix, the wildly successful Internet company that rents DVDs via the mail, says President Obama is off the mark in trying to cap executive compensation. In an op-ed in The New York Times today, Reed Hastings writes that the government should take in taxes half of the huge paychecks that CEOs of [...]

Today was not a good day to be the White House press secretary.
After two of President Obama’s prominent nominees withdrew from consideration because of tax concerns, Robert Gibbs took tough questions from the media at his daily press conference. And he didn’t enjoy a bit of it.
At first, he danced around the questions about the [...]

Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who heads the conservative Republican Study Committee in the House, spots an opportunity to attack Democrats on former Health and Human Services nominee, Tom Daschle.
Today’s action provides a glimmer of hope for patient-centered health care in America. While the fact that he failed to pay his taxes is completely unacceptable, the [...]

Pledging that he “will not be a distraction,” former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination for secretary of health and human services, MSNBC reports.
Following Nancy Killefer’s withdrawal from her chief performance officer post, Daschle is now the second Obama nominee to pull out for tax issues this morning.
Daschle’s decision comes on the [...]

It seems that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Commerce Department, doesn’t exactly believe in the necessity of that agency.
CQ’s Jonathan Allen points out that Gregg, one of the upper chamber’s most vocal fiscal hawks, voted twice in 1995 to abolish the department — once in the Budget Committee and [...]