rson Managing Director, Senior Wealth Planning Strategist Tax Topics 12/20/13 2013-12 Budgets, tax reform and “extenders” As the year winds down, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-W1) and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) have hammered out a budget deal that forestalls — for two years —

n and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically. Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Su

e to wait longer to order evacuations in the event of a hurricane. In an interview, Christopher Van Hollen Jr. of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, describing the Ryan budget "is a shell game designed to hide the damage to the countiy." Van Hollen is frustrated that the damage to which he allu

nd a figure who had merged a conservative fiscal wonkishness—he had been the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and, as well, chairman of the House Budget Committee—with an old-fashioned idea of unassailable Republican rectitude, Ryan was the official last, best hope of the Republican Party. (Bannon, typically, h