Daily Dose: Live Blogging the Senate Finance Markup
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 23rd, 2009 4:33 am by HL
Daily Dose: Live Blogging the Senate Finance Markup
4:49 p.m. | Markup Heats Up Things got a bit heated just now in the hearing room, generated from an unlikely source: the by-the-numbers, just-the-facts-ma’am director of the Congressional Budget Office, Doug Elmendorf. Asked by Olympia Snowe how many people the CBO was estimating would pay a pena…
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