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Still, episodes like this are stoking tension between the Administration and the Senate - particularly with the Finance Committee, which has vetted a number of the nominees for whom problems have emerged, including the tax issues that threatened to derail the confirmation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and forced former Senate...
Many on Capitol Hill insist that scrutiny has not gotten significantly tighter. "The Finance Committee is not doing anything different now from what it has always done under the leadership of either [Chairman Max] Baucus or me," ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa said recently. "We are vetting nominees for...
But the atmosphere of tension and mistrust is real - and no longer limited to the Finance panel. In recent weeks, three sources tell TIME, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has added a tax-related item to the basic questionnaire it presents to nominees it is vetting, asking them whether...
There is at least some precedent for going public with these kinds of embarrassing mistakes. It is true, for instance, that O'Neill's minor tax transgression was made public by the Finance Committee in 2001. But it didn't cause nearly the stir that has surrounded the more recent...
The question now is whether Aso's performance on the world stage has given a temporary reprieve for his flagging administration. Just six weeks ago, Aso's support rating at home had plunged into the single digits as Japan's recession worsened. Shortly after that poll came out, former Finance...