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blogs.abcnews.com - 1/30/2009

Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver

— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD, to be... President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee. The controversy... (more) Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces ...

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Tom Daschle

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blogs.abcnews.com - 1/31/2009

More Daschle Tax Issues

— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News has obtained the Senate Finance Committee Report on Tom Daschle's nomination to be Secretary of... the Department of Health and Human Services, which indicates that Daschle's tax problems were even more substantial than earlier reported. The ... (more) More Daschle Tax Issues

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salon.com - 2/2/2009

The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below - Update II - Update III) When Barack Obama announced in early December that he... had selected Tom Daschle to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services as well as his "health care policy czar," Rolling Stone 's Matt Taibbi -- who had ... (more) The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough - Glenn ...

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Why do we need a tax cheat as head of the HHS?
Betsy's Page — ... made use of the jet belonging to EduCap, a non-profit student loan organization. Remember, this is a former Senate Majority Leader. How does he just forget to pay taxes on over $80,000 in consulting income? Not quite a member of the hoi polloi, is he when what is many people's yearly income just slips his mind at tax time. And the whole story of his suddenly realizing that, "hey, maybe I should have paid taxes on that free car and driver" in June last year is quite fishy. As Ed Whelan points out , this is right at the time that Obama clinched the nomination and that ...