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  • The team includes former officials not just from the Treasury, but also from the I.R.S. and virtually all the tax-writing committees in Congress.

    Dave Johnson: Plutocracy: GE Doesn't Pay Taxes -- Taxpayers Pay GE Dave Johnson 2011

  • Lobbyists are already chatting up would-be Republican committee chairs, report Eric Lipton and David Herszenhorn: Mr. Camp is slated to take over the powerful, tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee if Republicans win the majority next week, transforming this low-key conservative Republican almost overnight into one of the most powerful men in town ...

    Wonkbook: What matters for jobs; the Tea Parties vs. the appropriators; would more stimulus have saved the Dems? Ezra Klein 2010

  • Democratic aides say they are open to the idea of raising taxes by $600 billion to $800 billion, with some of those tax increases laid out explicitly and the remaining $500 billion to be determined later by Congress's tax-writing committees.

    Deficit Deal a Moving Target Naftali Bendavid 2011

  • The team includes former officials not just from the Treasury, but also from the I.R.S. and virtually all the tax-writing committees in Congress.

    Dave Johnson: Plutocracy: GE Doesn't Pay Taxes -- Taxpayers Pay GE Dave Johnson 2011

  • But the super committee happens to include the chairmen of both tax-writing committees—Democrat Max Baucus of Senate Finance and Dave Camp of Ways and Means.

    The 'Go Big' Illusion 2011

  • The May 26, 2011, event linked Credit Suisse executives with top Capitol Hill aides, including two Republicans from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and one from the Senate's tax-writing committee, which has jurisdiction over health-care policy.

    Wall Street, Washington and Gingrich Brody Mullins 2012

  • Rangel is a senior member and former chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, while Waters has a senior position on the Financial Services Committee.

    Rangel, Waters ethics trials to take place after elections Associated Press 2010

  • A onetime English teacher, she spent 18 years in the Missouri House of Representatives and rose to become chairwoman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.

    Democrat Karen McCarthy of Missouri dies at 63; congresswoman opposed Iraq war, was target of ethics probe Adam Bernstein 2010

  • The approach could ease the path to an agreement, by allowing Congress to reach the outlines of an agreement on tax revenues and spending cuts this year, while postponing the difficult details of a tax overhaul until next year, and handing the issue back to the congressional tax-writing committees.

    Deficit Deal Might Delay Tax Overhaul John D. McKinnon 2011

  • The active hearing schedules in the two tax-writing committees suggest that Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D., Mont.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R., Mich.) aren't yielding all tax issues to the supercommittee this fall, though both are among its ranks, Mr. Schwarz noted.

    Debt Panel Focus Pushes Expiring Tax Breaks to Backseat Kristina Peterson 2011

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