Sen. Grassley fights against vital tax legislation

May 08, 2006
The Phantom Tax Bill
By Robert Novak

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Charles Grassley last Tuesday cavalierly rejected a summons to meet in the Oval Office with George W. Bush about tax legislation. Grassley, Senate Finance Committee chairman, said he could not make it because of visiting constituents from back home in Iowa. The real reason is that Grassley is playing his own game on tax legislation without interference from anybody, even the president.

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