testify. how long were you the irs chief? bill, just over four years from may started may of 03 until the may of 07. how many times did you go to the white house? you know, i don t have a precise number. my wife at the time i was married she actually worked on al gonzalez wants staff. bill: i mean, official irs business? how many times? oh, i testified last year before issa s committee i only went over there to my recollection once on a policy matter. interagency policy matter if you will. that was to talk about immigration reform. to get to this question, can i say one thing just to start off? bill: yeah. how sadly disturbed i am by all of what has come out. because in my bill: let s stay to the factual realm because you, better than anyone, know what the job is. all right, so you went over there once to talk about
testify. how long were you the irs chief? bill, just over four years from may started may of 03 until the may of 07. how many times did you go to the white house? you know, i don t have a precise number. my wife at the time i was married she actually worked on al gonzalez wants staff. bill: i mean, official irs business? how many times? oh, i testified last year before issa s committee i only went over there to my recollection once on a policy matter. interagency policy matter if you will. that was to talk about immigration reform. to get to this question, can i say one thing just to start off? bill: yeah. how sadly disturbed i am by all of what has come out. because in my bill: let s stay to the factual realm because you, better than anyone, know what the job is. all right, so you went over there once to talk about
hiring. in december of 2000 it became certain george w. bush would become president and would get to pass some form of the tax cuts he had campaigned on. but the unemployment rate went from 3.9%, the month he was appointed by the supreme court to 4.2% after his appointment removed all that uncertainty. in fairness, the tax cuts did not actually become law until june 2001 when unemployment had risen to 4.5% so how many jobs did the tax cuts create when they were signed into law? unemployment rose to 4.6%. 4.9% the month after that and then 5%, 5.3%, 5.5%. what about the second round signed in may of 03 when it had risen to 6.1%? it rose to 6.3% the next month. in all the years of his presidency the unemployment rate dropped only below 4.5% when he signed his first tax cuts into law in just four months dropping
certain george w. bush would become president and would get to pass some form of the tax cuts he had campaigned on. but the unemployment rate went from 3.9%, the month he was appointed by the supreme court to 4.2% after his appointment removed all that uncertainty. in fairness, the tax cuts did not actually become law until june 2001 when unemployment had risen to 4.5% so how many jobs did the tax cuts create when they were signed into law? unemployment rose to 4.6%. 4.9% the month after that and then 5%, 5.3%, 5.5%. what about the second round signed in may of 03 when it had risen to 6.1%? it rose to 6.3% the next month. in all the years of his presidency the unemployment rate dropped only below 4.5% when he signed his first tax cuts into law in just four months dropping to 4.4% four times in 2006.
3.9% the month he was appointed to 4.2% after his appointment removed the uncertainty. if fairness, the tax cuts did not become law until june 2001 when unemployment had risen to 4.5%. how many jobs did they create when they were signed into law? unemployment rose to 4.6% the next month. 4.9% the month after that and 5%, 5.3%, 5.5%. what about his secretary round of tax cuts in may of 03 when it rose to 6.1. it rose to 6.3% the next month. in all the years of his presidency, the unemployment rate dropped below 4.5 when he signed the first tax cuts in just four months, dropping to 4.po 4, four times in 2006. in the middle of a housing boom. let s go to washington director of a nonpartisan policy think tank.