In the 1990’s when I met with Bob Packwood, the Senator from
Oregon who was the Senate Finance Committee Chairman in 1986, he
told me a story about a request he made to the Senate Judiciary
staff in 1986 during the weeks leading up to the passage of the
1986 Tax Reform bill. Packwood said one night he was very tired
and some Senators were demanding that changes be made that would
produce more income and lower the deficit from the tax cuts.
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