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News Roundup: DeMint Slams Online Sales Tax

Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina calls proposals to charge sales tax to online retailers with no physical presence in a state "taxation without representation," in a WSJ opinion piece.

National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Sen. John Cornyn is prodding stingy colleagues to contribute more cash to the committee's coffers by telling them how much more Democrats have shelled out to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, The Hill reports.

Republican congressional investigators have accused five ATF supervisors of management failures in the Fast and Furious gun-trafficking investigation in a new report, the NYT reports.


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