GOP Agenda in Congress May Be at Risk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301065_pf.html
Katrina's Costs, High Fuel Prices Working Against More Tax Cuts
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 4, 2005; A02
Republican leaders intended to return to work with a dream agenda for
small-government conservatives: permanent repeal of the estate tax, an
extension of deep cuts to capital gains and dividend taxes, the first
entitlement spending cuts in nearly a decade, and the advent of private
investment accounts for Social Security.
But Congress and the White House are on the spot to respond to
Hurricane Katrina's historic Gulf Coast destruction and skyrocketing
gasoline prices, and the leadership is feeling pressure to set aside or
jettison parts of that well-laid agenda.
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