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Senate Panel Approves Geithner for Treasury Secretary
President Obama’s pick for treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, has won approval from the Senate committee handling his hearing despite concerns over tax problems. The vote now goes to the full Senate.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee decided Thursday that Timothy Geithner’s tax problems should not imperil his nomination for treasury secretary, voting 18-5 to recommend confirmation in the full Senate.
President Obama is hoping for quick approval so that his point man for the administration’s economic rescue effort can begin work.
The committee vote came a day after Geithner had appeared before the panel to apologize for what he called “careless mistakes” in failing to pay $34,000 in taxes earlier in the decade when he worked at the International Monetary Fund.
Geithner was supported by all Democrats on the panel, as well as five Republicans.
One committee member, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., a former tax commissioner, said in normal times, Geithner’s failure to pay his taxes would have led Conrad to oppose the nomination.
“But these are not normal times,” Conrad said. He said the economy’s not “out of the woods” and touted Geithner’s extensive experience at a time when the country needs a treasury secretary imminently.
Obama wants Geithner in place as his administration gets to work distributing the second half of the $700 billion financial bailout package and lobbying for passage of an $825 billion economic stimulus plan.
The nomination was expected to win approval by the full Senate. Geithner has been the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the past six years and was a key participant in decisions made by the Bush administration to deal with the worst financial crisis to hit the country since the Great Depression.
Geithner paid the back taxes plus interest for the years 2003 and 2004 after being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. But he did not pay taxes he owed for 2001 and 2002, even though he had made the same mistakes for those years, until shortly before he was nominated by Obama last November to be treasury secretary.
The top Republican on the committee, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, voted against the nomination.
Those voting no said that they did not believe Geithner had been candid in his answers on why he failed to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. They said they viewed this as a serious error for an official who would head the agency that oversees the IRS.
“I am disappointed that we are even voting on this,” said Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo. “In previous years, nominees who made less serious errors in their taxes than this nominee have been forced to withdraw.”
Obama’s choice for secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was confirmed by the full Senate Wednesday after a Republican senator caused a one-day delay over questions about donations to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation. Six other Cabinet secretaries were confirmed on Inauguration Day.
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Un-fucking-beleivable
Culture of corruption.
you got that right mart.
unbelievable is the word i would use.
during these times we end up with a guy who doesn’t even pay his own taxes and he is supposed to serve as treasury secretary. ever been told something and then you think about it, yet can not even wrap your head around it? yeah im there on this decision.
Is it so hard to believe?
They’re all thieves, liars and fags…..is it any wonder they’d appoint another one?
Being the head of the federal resreve bank for the last six years should have DIS-qualified him. He’s a PART of the problem.
This is why this appointment is wrong:
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000157.html
maybe we should all start making some really BIG MISTAKES on our returns come Apr 15 this year….
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth time. Stop be honest on your taxes if you truly are disgusted by the shit Washingtonians are cramming up our asses. If they don’t have the tax receipts coming in they can’t pay for their agenda and install their Nazi like social programs, its that simple. In fact it now could be argued that fudging your taxes or outright refusal to pay is in fact now patriotic and good for America. If the new head of the IRS doesn’t have to pay his taxes or suffer punishment when he doesn’t then why should we?
If you dont own a home or anything the IRS would consider valuable you’d be foolish to not seriously consider telling the IRS to fuck themselves by simply stop paying all or some of your taxes. You can get away with it for years if you want to and when 40% of the workforce doesn’t pay federal income tax then why the hell should we?
god-damn these fucking bastards can get away with anything. Joe the plumber was vilified for his tax problems and he wasn’t even part of the fucking govt.
UnFreakingBelievable! Why can’t we hold our politicians accountable for things everyday Americans are accountable for?
Ah, this is nothing but providing a bookend.
Don’t forget we’ve got the equally bulbous IRS tax cheat named Charlie Rangel, Head of the Ways and Means Committee, writing your tax laws as we speak.
Besides, I’m not worried. I’m going to take Harry Reid’s advice since taxes are now voluntary (no, I shit you not; just watch):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
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