On Apr 4, 10:44*am, wrote:
- Just two days after she revealed that she owed
- nearly $8,000 in back taxes,
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius faced largely
- friendly questioning from the Senate Finance
- Committee Thursday – with no questions at all
- asked about her tax situation.
-
- The committee has jurisdiction over tax issues.
-
- What’s more, only 11 senators – seven Democrats
- and four Republicans – out of a total 23 committee
- members had questions for Sebelius, who is
- President Obama’s choice to be secretary of health
- and human services.
-
- The sparse attendance and short, cordial exchanges
- between senators and Sebelius was surprising, since
- the same committee grilled another Obama nominee
- with tax problems in February -- current Treasury
- Secretary Timothy Geithner.
-
- Sebelius, who had appeared Tuesday before
- Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) Health, Education,
- Labor and Pensions Committee, was called before
- the Finance Committee because it oversees Medicare
- and Medicaid, two of the largest programs HHS administers.
-
- Geithner had faced withering questions from Senate
- Republicans during his contentious confirmation hearing,
- questions that eventually led to his now famous
- admission that his use of tax preparation software
- TurboTax might have led to his failure to pay nearly
- $35,000 in taxes.
-
- Sebelius, however, faced no such questioning from
- the Senate’s tax committee, despite her admission
- that she could not document claimed charitable
- donations and had improperly deducted mortgage
- interest on a home she no longer owned.
-
- The only mention of Sebelius' financial issues came
- from the governor herself, in response to committee
- chairman Max Baucus, who asked whether anything
- in her background might prevent her from executing
- her duties.
-
- "Well senator, there were a couple of stocks found
- in my husband's portfolio which have been identified
- by the ethics officer and we have committed to,
- if I'm confirmed, divesting those stocks,"
- Sebelius admitted.
-
- Only four of the committee’s 10 Republican members
- – Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa; Olympia Snowe of Maine;
- Pat Roberts of Kansas and Mike Enzi of Wyoming
- -- had any questions for Sebelius.
-
- None of those questions involved Sebelius' tax situation.
-
- Seven Democrats expressed satisfaction with her
- nomination -- and told the nominee they hope that
- she will be easily confirmed.
-
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- http://www.cnsnews.com/public/conten...x?RsrcID=46086
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