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IRS reform bill going strong [CNN]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Wed Nov 5 22:38:51 1997
From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 21:09:41 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
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> IRS Reform Bill Skates Through House
>
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> WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Nov. 5) -- A bill to reform the Internal
> Revenue Service skated through the House of Representatives today on
> an overwhelming 426-4 vote.
>
> The measure picked up the support of Democrats after its sponsors made
> key changes that drew the approval of the Clinton Administration.
>
> The most significant change would preserve the president's power to
> appoint the IRS commissioner. The original version of the bill would
> have transferred that duty to an independent board.
>
> The bill's centerpiece is an 11-member board made up mostly of private
> citizens that would oversee the IRS and help manage its long-term
> projects.
>
> Bill sponsor Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said the measure marked "the first
> time in 45 years that we have attempted as a Congress to enact
> fundamental reform."
