Estate Tax Failure Could Raise Pressure for Deal

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
June 5, 2006, 12 a.m.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) hopes that the expected defeat of a GOP plan to fully repeal the estate tax this week will help increase pressure on the two wings of his fractured party to work together, along with moderate Democrats, to craft a compromise later this summer, Senate GOP aides said.



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July 1, 11:28 a.m.

Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article

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