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12-10-2010, 06:28 AM
By The Situation Room
WOLF BLITZER: The White House is engaged in a full court press right now to win support from Democrats for the tax cut compromise President Obama hammered out with the Republican leadership. For the second day in a row, the Vice President Joe Biden was on Capitol Hill where he got an earful from Democratic lawmakers who are so angry over the deal to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
At the same time, the president's senior economic adviser gave a dire warning. Larry Summers says failure to pass the plan would significantly increase the risk of a double-dip recession.
I talked about the controversial compromise and more with one of the new breed of Republicans who will be joining Congress next month, Rand Paul, the senator-elect from Kentucky.
BLITZER: And joining us now from Bowling Green, Kentucky, the senator-elect from Kentucky, Rand Paul.
Senator-elect, thanks very much for coming in. SEN.-ELECT RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY: Good to be with you.
BLITZER: I know you can't vote during this lame duck session, you won't be a United States senator yet, but what do you think? Do you support this compromise that President Obama has worked out with the Republican leadership on extending the Bush-era tax cuts?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/08/interview_with_senator-elect_rand_paul_108210.html
WOLF BLITZER: The White House is engaged in a full court press right now to win support from Democrats for the tax cut compromise President Obama hammered out with the Republican leadership. For the second day in a row, the Vice President Joe Biden was on Capitol Hill where he got an earful from Democratic lawmakers who are so angry over the deal to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
At the same time, the president's senior economic adviser gave a dire warning. Larry Summers says failure to pass the plan would significantly increase the risk of a double-dip recession.
I talked about the controversial compromise and more with one of the new breed of Republicans who will be joining Congress next month, Rand Paul, the senator-elect from Kentucky.
BLITZER: And joining us now from Bowling Green, Kentucky, the senator-elect from Kentucky, Rand Paul.
Senator-elect, thanks very much for coming in. SEN.-ELECT RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY: Good to be with you.
BLITZER: I know you can't vote during this lame duck session, you won't be a United States senator yet, but what do you think? Do you support this compromise that President Obama has worked out with the Republican leadership on extending the Bush-era tax cuts?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/08/interview_with_senator-elect_rand_paul_108210.html