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Bush Administration, Senate Discuss Tax Cut Proposals.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2003

By G. Robert Hillman, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 11--WASHINGTON--Vice President Dick Cheney rebutted critics of the administration's sweeping tax cut proposals Friday in what is becoming an increasingly difficult sell among Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill.

And within minutes of his rebuttal, Senate Democrats were back on the attack.

"I believe there ought to be a tax cut, but I don't believe that we ought to have a $675 billion, 10-year tax cut at a time when we are up to our neck in federal deficits that go as far as the eye can see," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.

"And I certainly don't think we ought to have a tax cut that has a minuscule amount of its impact on this...

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