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Mad scramble as 'wave of departures' set to crash on powerful congressional committees
The Tax Writers Are Already Being Bought Into PositionPower Is the StoryThe real news here is not that lawmakers like to jockey for committee seats. It is that the people who write the nation’s tax laws are chosen through a process that rewards retirement waves, fundraising rituals, and insider patience. The House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee are not decorative assignments. They are choke points of institutional power. Whoever sits there helps shape who pays, who escapes, and who gets protected by the code.That is the story Politico brushes past by calling it “quiet…
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