Sunday, March 4, 2012

CONGRESS SETS TAX CUT STUDY.(Main)

Byline: Andrew Mollison Cox News Service

Members of Congress rushed home Wednesday for Thanksgiving after scheduling unexpected committee hearings on tax cut proposals.

The House and Senate tax-writing committees were authorized to start hearings next month on rival plans for tax cuts and other ways of encouraging economic growth.

"We have to get this country moving again through a debate through which we feel a sound and credible policy will emerge," said Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, D-Maine.

Rival proposals by Republicans and Democrats will be examined "carefully and responsibly" in hearings in December and January, said …

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