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Comments 1 Bureau of Economic Analysis 2 Department of Treasury 3 Congressional Budget Office 4 Bureau of Labor Statistics 5 United States Census Bureau 6 United States Census Bureau 7 Kaiser Study of Employer Health Care Benefits 8 United States Census Bureau 9 Energy Information Administration 10 Higher Education Coordinating Board of Washington State 11 Bureau of Economic Analysis 12 Insurance Information Institute 13 United States Census Bureau 14 OANDA.com: The Currency Website 15 Speaker of the House Fact Sheet, 11/29/07 16 Energy Information Administration 17 Testimony of Andrew Kohut; President, Pew Research Center; 3/17/07

LABOR today signalled it will block the Government's $21.7 billion tax cuts as Prime Minister John Howard failed to give an iron-clad guarantee that all measures outlined in the Budget would be delivered. About $21.7 billion in tax cuts and a $3.6 billion move to push 190,000 people from welfare to work were the centrepieces of Treasurer Peter Costello's 10th budget handed down last night. (Tax cuts: Full story) Mr Costello and Mr Howard hit the airwaves to sell the main points today, both keen to focus on the Budget and not the leadership stoush between them. Asked whether the...