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Here We Go Again? Solis Nomination Held Up After Husband's Tax Problem Revealed
Politics Daily —
... under: Democrats, Breaking News, Gaffes, Obama AdministrationAnother day, another cabinet nominee dealing with a tax mess. This time it's President Obama's choice for labor secretary, Hilda Solis. The Senate committee considering her nomination was abruptly scrapped today after the revelation that yesterday her husband paid over $6000 to settle tax liens against his business. The liens had been outstanding for 16 years. USA Today broke the story: Los Angeles County records showed 15 outstanding ...
Solis Confirmation Hearing Delayed
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... on the Labor Secretary-designate amid GOP complaints about her work for a pro-union group.
Meanwhile: Obama aides tell USA Today Solis' husband paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle outstanding tax liens against his business. ...
Crikey: Labor Secy nominee Solis’s husband finally pays up 16-year-old tax liens
Michelle Malkin —
This administration has no shame. No shame at all. USA Today reports that the Obama White House sheepishly disclosed today that Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis’s hubby has just paid up 16-year-old tax liens… yesterday . The disclosure comes just hours before the nomination vote. Hope, Change, Transparency! The husband of President Obama’s Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon. The disclosure came shortly before a 2 ...
Fixing the Deficit
Swampland —
... One solution: Barack Obama should nominate everyone in the country to his cabinet.
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Obama Likes Tax Cheats Like Bill Clinton Likes Big Macs and Loose Women
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... It’s a freakin’ epidemic. Hilda Solis, a congress critter and Obama’s nominee for Labor Secretary, is married to Sam Sayyad. He has tax problems. ...
This is getting ridiculous....
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
... WASHINGTON — The husband of President Obama's Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon. ...
Another! Obama Nominee With Tax Troubles?
A Blog For All —
At the rate we're going, President Obama will out every last major domo in DC as a tax cheat. That's change we can be proud of. Sadly, that's not his intent. He's simply chosen a bunch of nominees who can't pay their taxes. The latest? Hilda Solis, whose husband had tax liens on his business for the last 15 years . The husband of President Obama's Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon. The disclosure came shortly ...
Report: Solis's Husband Paid Off Tax Liens Yesterday
News —
Report: Solis's Husband Paid Off Tax Liens Yesterday Another day, another Obama Cabinet nominee facing tax issues. USA Today reported Thursday afternoon that the husband of Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), Obama’s choice for Secretary of Labor, paid $6,400 yesterday to settle tax liens outstanding against his business for as long as 16 years. The story, which cites Los Angeles County tax records, says that Sam Sayyad owed $7,630 on 15 tax liens on his auto repair business. Two liens, worth $981, were released in 1999 after Sayyad paid them off, the article says. "We ...
Tax Problems Surface for Another Nominee
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... reports that a Senate committee "abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business -- liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years." ...
Solis Vote Delayed: Labor Nominee Stalled As Husband Settles Taxes
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... on Hilda Solis, President Obama's nominee for Labor Secretary, on Thursday. However, that vote was delayed -- just after USA Today reported that Solis' husband had paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his auto business. ...
Solis Vote Delayed: Labor Nominee Stalled As Husband Settles Taxes
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... on Hilda Solis, President Obama's nominee for Labor Secretary, on Thursday. However, that vote was delayed -- just after USA Today reported that Solis' husband had paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his auto business. ...
Another Obama Cabinet Nominee With Tax Issues?
GayPatriot —
Husband of Rep. Solis, Labor nominee, settles tax liens
This is getting to be a pattern. An interesting change President Obama has brought to Washington.
Solis confirmation vote postponed.
Think Progress —
... The delay was announced moments after USA Today reported that Solis’ husband had recently paid off $6,400 in tax liens on an auto shop he owns in Los Angeles. ...
Solis Vote Postponed After Husband's Tax Liens Revealed
TPM Election Central —
... by Republicans aiming to slow up the Employee Free Choice Act, a core priority of the labor movement. But today's sudden postponement had a lot more to do with a USA Today inquiry that prompted Solis' husband to pay $6,400 yesterday in order to settle long-outstanding California tax liens. ...
Hope and Change: Another Cabinet appointee with tax problems
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... The good news? After the back taxes owed by Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle, Hilda Solis’ bill looks like petty cash. The nominee for Secretary of Labor became the third Barack Obama Cabinet appointee to have undisclosed tax problems. Her husband just paid off tax liens from sixteen years ago, a development that the White House belatedly acknowledged: The husband of President Obama’s Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this ...
Another Quantum of Solis
Weekly Standard Blog —
Hilda Solis, in addition to violating House ethics rules by serving as the treasurer of an organization that was actively engaged in lobbying her fellow legislators, has now had her nomination held up by (what else?) tax problems.
USA Today reports:
Solis and [her husband] Sayyad were unaware of the liens until USA TODAY asked about them Tuesday, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said. He said Sayyad paid about $6,400 to Los Angeles County on Wednesday to settle the liens, but he plans to appeal.
Vietor said ...
Solis' Husband Has Tax Problem
TalkLeft —
The latest Cabinet nominee to encounter difficulty is Hilda Solis, President Obama's choice to head the Department of Labor. A scheduled hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has been postponed in light of news that Solis' husband had $6,400 in tax liens against his business for many years, liens he paid only yesterday. Robert Gibbs reacted to the news appropriately: "She's not a partner in that business," Gibbs said. "We're not going to penalize her for her husband's business mistakes." ...
Solis Committee Vote Delayed, Because of Something Someone Else Did
Daily Kos —
... This is not Daschle revisted, or even Geithner revisted. This is a couple 16-year old liens for $6400 on Solis's husband's business. As Robert Gibbs noted at today's gaggle: ...
No Wonder Liberals Don't Mind Higher Taxes; None of Them Apparently Pay Them
Ace of Spades HQ —
No Wonder Liberals Don't Mind Higher Taxes; None of Them Apparently Pay Them Yet another Obama appointee with tax troubles. Labor head wannabe Solis' husband only paid $6000+ in outstanding tax liens against his company when his wife was tapped for the cabinet. As a blogger snarked: This is all part of Obama's scheme to goose tax revenues. He's just going to keep on nominating tax scofflaws until they all pay up, and we'll be deficit free. Her Senate hearing has been postponed to give The Lightworker's team time to investigate the matter quietly urge her to throw herself ...
Remainders: Prayer
Ben Smith's Blog —
Not the prayer breakfast, but actually a stimulus presser.
Amy Sullivan finds Obama's religious agenda ambitious.
Prime time presidential press conference Monday.
Andy Card has had enough of the shirtsleeves.
Roland Martin may not be familiar with Bill Burton's Obama-esque roots.
Jake Gershman thinks Blago is crazy like a fox.
Solis runs into (mild?) trouble.
Hillary's going to Asia.
Steve King and RFK Jr. go at it.
The Israeli right is rising, and ...
Enzi: Solis Isn't Going Anywhere For Now
TPM Election Central —
... Turns out that the Solis delay wasn't so shocking to Enzi, who said he and fellow senators knew last night about $6,700 in California tax liens long left unpaid by Solis' husband. Enzi said Republicans knew this morning that the confirmation vote wasn't going to happen, but that it was left on the committee schedule because senators "wanted answers from the White House." ...
Another Nominee with Tax Problems, Another Faux Scandal
Hit & Run —
... Solis and her husband say they didn't know about the liens, which rings true since they have hundreds of thousands of dollars in their bank accounts and surely would have paid to avoid the fate of being CNN ticker fodder, if nothing else. ...
Hey Look! Another Tax Issue!
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Link:
The husband of President Obama’s Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon.
The disclosure came shortly before a scheduled 2 p.m. meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which will vote on Rep. Hilda Solis’ nomination as labor secretary. The hearing was postponed; no reason was immediately revealed.
At a press conference, Obama spokesman Robert ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... pressure on Congress and benefiting watchdog groups on both sides of the political aisle.
Capitol operators tell CNN Radio that phone lines have been jammed for the past two weeks, sometimes prompting busy signals.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, said calls on the sweeping stimulus plan jumped from eight during all of January to hundreds a day now.
In a sampling of 12 Senate offices, half had so many messages that their voicemail boxes were full.
The Latest Obama Tax Problem: Husband of Rep. Solis, Labor nominee, settles tax liens - 16 years ...
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The Latest Obama Tax Problem: Husband of Rep. Solis, Labor nominee, settles tax liens - 16 years late
The husband of President Obama's Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday ...
Hey Look! Another Tax Issue!
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
Link : The husband of President Obama's Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon. The disclosure came shortly before a scheduled 2 p.m. meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which will vote on Rep. Hilda Solis' nomination as labor secretary. The hearing was postponed; no reason was immediately revealed. At a press conference, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said of Solis: "I read the story in ...
Josh Dorner: Enough is Enough: Confirm Solis Now
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Yesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was finally due to vote on Solis when unfortunate--but in no way disqualifying--news broke that her husband's business (of which he is the sole proprietor) had several outstanding tax liens, which he paid as soon as he learned of them. The vote was then canceled. ...
All The Known Gaffes Of The Obama World
Jules Crittenden —
... as I try to amass a gaffeological library. A new Alexandria, encompassing all the gaffes of the known Obamaworld. 1. Most expensive inauguration . Ever. 2. Appointing tax cheat Tim Geithner . 3. Appointing under investigation Bill Richardson . 4. Appointing tax cheat Tom Daschle . 5. Appointing Marc Rich and terrorist pardoning Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder . 6. Appointing Janet “Man Caused Disasters” Napolitano . 7. Appointing Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens). 8. Appointing anti-Semitic Charles ...
