1.   Anheuser-Busch even threatened to close its St Louis plant if the tax measure passed, though nobody believed that.

2.   The committee has jurisdiction over all tax measures.

3.   ...tax measures enacted as a quick fix.

4.   No new tax measures were announced.

5.   No new tax measures were proposed.

6.   No shareholder would now be worse off because of the tax measure.

7.   Among the GOP presidential candidates, only Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania has introduced or endorsed a flat tax measure.

8.   An open debate could persuade enough Republicans not to follow the White House lockstep into an obsolete tax measure.

9.   And others were inserted because the law appeared to be the only tax measure likely to pass this year.

10.   And it looks as if the president will have to make compromises to get any tax measure through the Senate.