House Tax Chief Pitches No-New-Revenue Plan to Wary Voters
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Representative Dave Camp’s summer-recess ritual of visits with constituents at a retirement home, the Rotary Club and an airport construction site was punctuated this past week by voters’ misgivings about the deficit fight in Washington in which Camp plays a central part.
As he crisscrossed his hometown district of Midland, Michigan, on Aug. 25, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee repeated to residents -- some of whom he has known since childhood -- his promise not to raise taxes to cut the deficit. The 11-term Republican House member encountered voters who supported him while expressing doubt that Congress can tackle a $1.3 trillion budget deficit.