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Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000...

Former Senator Gary Hart compared himself to Winston Chucrhill yesterday. 'I would love to be President,' he told reporters. 'I would have been a very good president. In many ways I would be a better one now.''Why now, he was asked? Why did Winston Churchill come back after 10 years out of office? Times change,' he replied.David Lightman writes that Harts were politely recieved by a Capitol Hill crowd yesterday, but pointed out the lack of enthusiasm from the Democratic quarter for a Hart redux.Hart has a January 22 Iowa visit scheduled. Iowa supporters of the one time Democratic Presidential...