1.   Although the tax breaks have broad support on Capitol Hill, such bill have a tendency to become magnets for a other, less-popular tax provisions.

2.   And a new tax provision due to take effect next year frees them to sell off cross-holdings without facing immense capital-gains tax bills.

3.   And because the tax provisions are so complex, even many middle-class parents may end up cursing rather than praising the new law.

4.   And they did not disagree with what the tax provision actually does.

5.   Anti-tobacco senators failed to kill the tax provision today by invoking a legislative rule that limits what kinds of provisions can be added to budget bills.

6.   Anti-tobacco senators tried and failed to kill the tax provision today by invoking a legislative rule that limits what kinds of provisions can be added to budget bills.

7.   Archer also said that the debt limit extension may represent the best chance to move major tax provisions through Congress this year.

8.   As with the tax provisions that affect campuses, the health care cuts could hurt Massachusetts disproportionately.

9.   Both parties favor extending a series of expiring tax provisions, including one that provides a break for research and development expenses.

10.   Budget cuts should be made by reducing regulation and government fees that slow business, rather than changing the tax provisions, Delay said.