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Two congressional Republicans who blame the federal government for meager education funding in the West said Monday they want to tax the federal government's vast landholdings across 12 Western states.
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Congress is likely to try other economic boosts. The GOP wants to extend the Bush tax cuts set to expire in 2010.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.
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Congress wants you to save, not spend, your tax refund. So why did it lay so many traps?
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Yielding to Republican demands that the first minimum wage hike in a decade be coupled with tax cuts for small businesses, the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives is preparing a $1 billion tax package, a senior Democrat said on Wednesday.
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The top U.S. congressional tax writer proposed sweeping tax legislation on Thursday that would repeal a tax for the rich that has been hitting more middle-class Americans and replace it with a new tax on high-income earners.
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Two want to abolish the income tax â and the IRS. Others say they'd renew the Bush tax cuts.
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A watchdog group asked the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate whether a congressman broke the law by not paying taxes and using his office's resources for campaign activities.
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Former NBA coach and commentator Dick Versace is looking for a new job: congressman.
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Hardly anybody likes the current tax system. But as President Bush undertakes the potentially historic task of coming up with something better, he is confronting
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Washington taxpayers will be able to deduct their state sales taxes from their federal income taxes if the US Senate votes this weekend to approve a major tax overhaul.
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Democratic presidential rivals called for higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on big corporations Thursday and said any thought of balancing the federal budget would have to wait.
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Whoever wrote a legislative provision to give more members of Congress access to income tax records should be tracked down and held to account, a Democratic senator said Monday.
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A former Minnesota congressman is being questioned for accepting &#36;12,500 in donations and spending more than &#36;60,000 on campaign expenses in the two years after he was ousted from office.
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A special commission is urging the government to raise federal gasoline taxes by as much as 40 cents per gallon as part of an overhaul  to ease traffic and repair roads
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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani drew jeers Saturday for saying he does not think a flat federal income tax is right for the country.
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