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House Republicans Score a Coup for Freedom of Light Bulb Choice!

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Friday, December 16, 2011 7:24:20 PM
"Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete."
"Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year."
"That agreement is tucked inside the massive 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, and which both houses of Congress will vote on Friday. Mr. Obama is expected to sign the bill, which heads off a looming government shutdown." 
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Eureka! Congress blocks the incandescent light bulb ban

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Compromising Positions Deja vu? Taxing the rich during Bill Clinton's reign 1993

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Friday, December 09, 2011 9:11:37 PM
"Not only is the Clinton plan now poised to raise taxes in the face of a weakening economy ( the key blunder of the 1990 Bush plan) but nearly all of the increases will be shouldered by only one class of taxpayers--those with six-figure incomes. They are unexpectedly being asked to help make up for the loss of revenue from the now-dead energy tax by paying nearly $7 billion in new taxes, retroactive to last January."  (1993 Congressional Democrats idea "wringing an estimated $6.75 billion out of "rich people" by income-tax hike)
 
 
Found in an article  HOW THE BUDGET BILL WENT AWRY Compromising Positions,  The Bottom Line/ Christopher Byron,  New York Magazine,  August 16, 1993  page 16-19
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