Super Committee Members Plan Fundraisers During Deficit Talks

And the co-chairs of the 'Super Congress' (Patty Murray and Jeb Hensarling­) just hired the Mark Prater, who works for the Republican minority (for both Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch) to be the staff director of the committee.  Prater "was instrument­al in ferrying President Bush’s tax-cut package through the Senate Finance Committee in 2001".

“It was a watershed bill with across-the­-board rate reductions­,” he explained. “It brought changes in family tax relief, retirement security, education, and estate and gift taxes — broad-base­d changes.” As majority chief tax counsel, Prater played a critical role in planning how to “set the table” for the Senate’s review of the package. “We planned the Senate’s review of all the major tax reform issues and set up hearings on their components­,” he explained. He added that much of his time was spent analyzing reform issues and advising the Finance Committee chairman on the benefits and drawbacks of each.

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