United States Senate Committee On Finance

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**FILE** Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 17, 2013, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2014. (Associated Press)

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Jack Lew (center) shakes hands with former Sen. Pete Domenici, New Mexico Republican, before he and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, testify Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee on Mr. Lew’s nomination to be Treasury secretary. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said there is bipartisan support to let the temporary reduction in payroll taxes expire. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Max Baucus, Montana Democrat, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee pauses following final votes as the Senate leaves for a five-week recess, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack listens to U.S. Trade Representative Ronald Kirk (left) during a Senate Finance Committee hearing Thursday on Russia joining the World Trade Organization and the administration's views on the implications for the United States. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Senate Finance Committee chairman, Sen. Walter Stosch, Henrico Republican, left, and Sen. Charles Colgan, Prince William Democrat, talk prior to a Senate budget briefing at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Sen. Walter A. Stosch (left), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, confers with Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. during Wednesday's floor session. With adjournment set for Saturday, there is no agreement on a budget. (Associated Press)

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (left), Montana Democrat, and House Ways and Means Committee Charman Rep. David Camp, Michigan Republican, raise their hands Feb. 16, 2012, on Capitol Hill as the bipartisan House and Senate conferees gather to sign the compromise agreement. (Associated Press)

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (left) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp raise their hands Thursday on Capitol Hill. Congressional leaders gathered to sign off on a final deal to extend the payroll-tax cuts through the rest of this year. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Obama's fiscal 2013 federal budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, Montana Democrat (left), and Minority Whip Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, confer during a meeting of the payroll-tax conferees Wednesday. Partisan debate on conditions to add to the federal unemployment benefits program threatens to bog down negotiations on extending the payroll-tax break. (Associated Press)

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Supercommittee member, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, Montana Democrat, fends off reporters as he arrives to meet in the Capitol Hill office of Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, with other Supercommittee members as time for action by the deficit reduction panel grows short, Monday Nov. 21, 2011, of Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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**FILE** Sen. Max Baucus, Montana Democrat and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, talks on his cell phone Sept. 27, 2011, outside a closed-door meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, center, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 30, 2011, to charge the Obama Administration of political tactics that undermine pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. From left are: Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyo.; Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz.; Hatch; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. (Associated Press)

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ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva (left) and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson gather their things on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, May 12, 2011, after testifying before the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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** FILE ** Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (right), then-chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Robert Dole, then-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, chat outside a hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington in 1982. (AP Photo/John Duricka)