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Republican budget proposal unveiled House Republicans on Tuesday proposed a dramatic reshuffling of the tax code, suggesting collapsing individual tax brackets into two brackets with lower tax rates and slashing the top corporate tax rate.
March 20, 2012
Before a news conference at which he announced the House Republicans' budget proposal, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), meets with Republican committee members and staffers, including Reps. Frank C. Guinta (N.H.) and Bill Flores (Tex.), staffer Stephen Miller, and Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.).
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), seated at right, talks with Rep. Frank C. Guinta (R-N.H.), standing by door, before unveiling the House GOP's 2013 budget plan. The man at left is unidentified.
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Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveils House Republicans' 2013 budget plan on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Ryan and other House leaders are pressing to protect the Pentagon in 2013 while cutting domestic agencies below levels set during last summer's showdown over the federal debt ceiling. Democrats and some GOP moderates said the move could spark a fresh clash over the annual bills needed to keep the government running into the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, center, speaks with journalists in a Capitol Hill elevator after the news conference at which he unveiled his 2013 budget plan. The plan would cut spending on the major programs for the poor, including Medicaid and food stamps, while giving the states greater responsibility for their administration. Recipients would also be given a deadline to find work and get off the dole.
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March 20, 2012
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) clicks through slides with a remote at a news conference during which he announced his budget plan. As it did last year, the Ryan budget once again proposes to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67 and cap spending on those who turn 65 after 2023, offering seniors a set amount with which to purchase private health insurance on newly created federal exchanges.
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Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is followed by reporter Brian Faler after announcing his 2013 budget plan at a news conference on Capitol Hill.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) walks past cherry blossoms on Capitol Hill after his news conference Tuesday on the House Republicans' 2013 budget plan.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is briefed by staff members while being driven to deliver a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on the budget.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) shows a copy of "The FY2013 Budget --The Path to Prosperity" during a news conference at Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans unveiled an ambitious budget plan to cut taxes, slash spending and overhaul Medicare in a bid to draw a stark election-year contrast between their vision of the size and role of government and that of President Obama.
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March 20, 2012
House Budget Committee members hold copies of their 2013 budget at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. The House Republican plan reduces personal income taxes to a 25 percent and a 10 percent rate, although it leaves income thresholds for the income brackets unclear, and would set a discretionary spending cap at $1.028 trillion.
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March 20, 2012
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), right, speaks as Ryan listens during the introduction of the House Budget Committee's Fiscal Year 2013 budget at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington.
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March 20, 2012
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), left, speaks as Ryan listens during the introduction of the House Budget Committee's 2013 budget at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington.
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March 20, 2012
Ryan prepares to unveil his 2013 budget plan on Capitol Hill.
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March 20, 2012
Ryan prepares to unveil his 2013 budget plan on Capitol Hill.
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March 20, 2012
House Republicans on Tuesday proposed a dramatic reshuffling of the tax code, suggesting collapsing individual tax brackets into two brackets with lower tax rates and slashing the top corporate tax rate.
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March 20, 2012
The plan also would slash trillions of dollars in federal spending, a move likely to appease conservative, tea-party-backed GOP lawmakers but infuriate the White House, congressional Democrats and some Republicans concerned that spending disagreements could spark threats of a government shutdown just weeks before the November elections.
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March 20, 2012
Ryan, pictured, was to follow up his announcement with a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. The proposal would replace the current tax structure’s six brackets with just two tax levels, a 10 percent marginal tax rate for lower-income earners and 25 percent for upper-income earners.
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March 20, 2012
The budget proposal, "The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal," sits in a box in the House Budget Committee office.
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March 7, 2012
From left, Congressmen Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), Rob Woodall (R-Ga.) and Todd Rokita (R-Ind.), with staff behind, attend a meeting led by Ryan, with Republican members of the House Budget Committee.
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March 7, 2012
Ryan, with Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.) at right, leads a closed-door meeting with Republican members of the House Budget Committee concerning the Republican 2013 budget.
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March 7, 2012
Ryan leads a meeting with Republican members of the House Budget Committee concerning the Republican budget.
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Ryan is surrounded by staff before the meeting begins on Capitol Hill.
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Ryan prepares to lead a closed-door meeting with Republican members of the House Budget Committee.
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Ryan and members of the House Budget Committee introduce the House 2013 budget at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington.
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