2 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 — another government shutdown, and limits some of the forthcoming sequester cu

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