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Budget Brings LIFO Coalition Roaring Back

Wholesalers Say Proposed Changes Would Hit Them Hard

By Matthew Murray and Jay Heflin
Roll Call Staff
March 25, 2009, Midnight

Beer, wine and distilled spirits wholesalers are planning a counteroffensive to a White House budget proposal they claim may retroactively tax their businesses $100 billion or more.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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