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To: RinConRon who wrote (359445)	4/14/2010 1:35:03 PM
From: Brumar89	4 Recommendations Respond to of 794205

Someone intelligent must have told him it was a bad idea. So there must be one intelligent guy in DC. Amazing he listened.

To: RinConRon who wrote (359445)	4/14/2010 1:46:45 PM
From: Oral Roberts	5 Recommendations Respond to of 794205

that is really too bad because I was hoping one of the CEO's would tear into his idiot ass. Like what part of complying with SEC rules don't you quite get there Henry baby?

To: RinConRon who wrote (359445)	4/14/2010 3:30:47 PM
From: SmoothSail	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794205

Waxman has cancelled the witch hunt hearings Dang! I was looking forward to that. It would have exposed him for the idiot he is. I can hardly wait for the campaign to kick into gear in California with ads showing Boxer and her "Call me senator" remark.

To: RinConRon who wrote (359445)	4/14/2010 4:31:23 PM
From: KLP	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794205

Here's the article (Waxman is AFRAID, IMO)Canceled: Hearing That Would Have Grilled CEOs on Health Care Posted By Jim Angle On April 14, 2010 @ 2:21 pm In Congress \| 43 Comments Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has canceled a hearing intended to grill CEOs who took a charge against profits because of the health care reform bill. The cancellation came after they realized what everyone already knew - that the companies were required to do what they did because of accounting rules. Waxman and others had reacted with outrage and accused the companies of doing it - in essence, to make health care reform look bad. AT&T took a $1 billion charge and other companies including Caterpillar, John Deere, and Valero Energy, and 3M took hundreds of millions in charges because of the health care reforms. The new bill ended a tax break intended to make it attractive for the companies to keep their retirees on company drug benefit plans instead of ending those plans and pushing them into Medicare which would have cost the government much more money. The Democratic memo cancelling the hearing notes, "These one-time charges were required by applicable accounting rules. Under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as determined by the FASB, companies are required to take a noncash charge against current earnings to recognize a tax liability for the estimated future tax effects of a new law." It goes on to read, “This noncash charge must reflect the entire present value of the loss of future tax deductions on the subsidy, and it must be taken in the period in which the law is enacted. Moreover, if the level of the impact is deemed "material" under SEC regulations, the company must file the report promptly following the triggering event, in this case the enactment of the law." Some 3,500 companies are likely to be affected. But on the hearing - a big "never mind" from Chairman Waxman. UPDATE: House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, responded to the cancelation saying, "House Democrats canceled this hearing because they don’t want to give America's employers a forum to tell the public how President Obama’s new health care law is already hurting our economy and hampering job creation." "Chairman Waxman thought he could intimidate businesses into keeping quiet about this new job-killing health care law, but when they called his bluff by continuing to speak out, he chose to pull the plug," Boehner said in a statement. ________________________________________ Article printed from The Speakers Lobby: congress.blogs.foxnews.com URL to article: congress.blogs.foxnews.com