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Obama 'confident' treasury pick will be confirmed
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/15/2009
Obama 'confident' treasury pick will be confirmed
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Barack Obama's team says Tim Geithner, left, quickly addressed the mistakes he made. WASHINGTON (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama defended his Treasury Secretary-designate Tim Geithner on Wednesday amid reports that Geithner failed to pay the correct amount on his taxes for a time and employed a housekeeper whose work authorization had expired. Watch: Obama defends Geithner Obama told [...]
Geithner's Tax History Muddles Confirmation
online.wsj.com - 1/13/2009
Geithner's Tax History Muddles Confirmation
— online.wsj.com — [President-elect Barack Obama's pick for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, left, employed an immigrant housekeeper with expired work papers.] Getty Images President-elect Barack Obama's pick for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, left, employed ... (more) Geithner's Tax History Muddles Confirmation

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article.nationalreview.com - 1/19/2009
York: Geithner Cant Explain His Failure to Pay Taxes
— article.nationalreview.com — The treasury secretary-designates answers leave some senators baffled. (more) York: Geithner Cant Explain His Failure to Pay Taxes

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townhall.com - 1/15/2009
Hugh Hewitt: Confirm Geithner; Approve The TARP Funds, and Get The Stimulus Right
— townhall.com — Flying back to California from D.C. last night on Jet Blue I watched a few hours of the panels on the financial stations chewing over the dispiriting retail news from December, the illness of Steve Jobs, the vote today on the second release of the ... (more) Hugh Hewitt: Confirm Geithner; Approve The TARP Funds, ...

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Slublog:  Obama: I Have Full Confidence in My Tax-Cheat Treasury Pick

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Obama: I Have Full Confidence in My Tax-Cheat Treasury Pick
Slublog — ... The president-elect says he's sure Timothy Geithner will be confirmed. Given the fact that even Lapdog for Hire Lindsay Graham doesn't seem bothered by Geithner's 'taxes for thee, but not for me' history, Obama is probably right. ...

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Obama defends Geithner
politico.com 1/13/2009 — Robert Gibbs responds to a report that Tim Geithner's nomination is in trouble over the immigration status and taxes of a housekeeper: The President-elect chose Tim Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary because he's the right person to help lead ...
A Rocky Road for Treasury Secretary-Designee Geithner?
blogs.abcnews.com 1/13/2009 — The Senate Finance Committee, which will oversee the confirmation hearings of Treasury Secretary designee Tim Geithner, has been meeting today to discuss some tax issues lurking in the past of the former New York Federal Reserve Bank president. In a...
Geithner's Tax Problem
powerlineblog.com 1/14/2009 — The Obama transition team's latest stumble is the revelation that Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes from 2001 through 2004, when he was employed by the International Monetary Fund. This is, as the Obama ...
Geithner’s tax reimbursements for taxes he didn’t pay
michellemalkin.com 1/15/2009 — A former IMF employee e-mailed me yesterday when news of Obama Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner’s tax troubles came to light. [...] Read the rest »
Morning Briefing for January 16, 2009
redstate.com 1/16/2009 — 1. The Obama Tax Cuts Are Just Bait for the GOP Obama’s whole model is to lead by being unthreatening. He’d rather have someone else make the tough decisions. He figures that tax-cut proposals will work like catnip on Republicans in Congress. Then ...