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...Senate hearings featuring a priest as one of the agency's innocent victims and IRS whistle blowers testifying from behind screens to hide their identity. Then the voice announces that while Republicans want to overhaul the IRS and scrap the tax code, President Clinton and his Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, are defending the status quo. "If you like the IRS," Luntz's fantasy ad continues, "vote Democratic. If you want to send a message, vote Republican...
...next few weeks, political commercials like the one Luntz dreams of will be saturating the airwaves come next year's midterm congressional elections. It's a prospect that scares Democrats all over town. Except, that is, for one of the most influential of all: Secretary Rubin. He knows that an anti-IRS bill backed by the G.O.P. leadership will move to the House Ways and Means Committee this week, but he has refused to budge on a central Republican demand: that his department relinquish some of its control of the IRS to an oversight board made up mostly of private...
...former Wall Street bond trader, Rubin remains untroubled by the political conundrum he has created for his bosses Clinton and Al Gore. He spent nearly two hours last Wednesday on the phone with Representative Rob Portman of Ohio, the bill's major Republican sponsor, but the two couldn't bridge what Portman described as their "fundamental philosophical divide." Rubin argues that giving citizens authority over the IRS "raises very serious issues of accountability and conflict of interest." In other words, as another top Administration official put it, "you don't want IRS agents reporting to the chairman of GM." Even...
...West Wing meeting before the President's plan was made public, several aides insisted that the Administration not get backed into a corner defending an agency Americans love to hate. But Gene Sperling, the chairman of the President's National Economic Council, ended the discussion by invoking Rubin. "The Treasury Secretary says the [private oversight board] is stupid policy. That's our position...
...predicting that so many Democrats will abandon the Administration that the bill could pass the House, and maybe even the Senate, with enough votes to overcome a presidential veto. "We're probably going to get killed on this," says a White House official. That doesn't seem to faze Rubin, whose stubbornness stands out in a city of compromise...