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Tax cut compromise, highway bill debated Without a tax extension, more taxpayers would be open to an alternative minimum tax. DAVID ESPO & MARY DA RYMPLE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS WASHINGTON — President Bush and the Republican-controlled Con gress deadlocked over tax cut legisla tion on Wednesday, but a White House concession breathed new life into a separate election-year measure, a long-stalled highway bill. Several Republican congressional and administration officials said the president rejected as insufficient an offer by GOP leaders for a two-year extension of expiring tax cuts for par ents, married couples and workers. Bush, in the midst of a difficult re election campaign, wants a five-year extension of the tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire on Dec. 31. "It would be nice to do it now, but if it's not just the right package, I'll wait and do it later," said Senate Ma jority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. White House and congressional aides both predicted an effort to revive the tax cut measure in the fall. Other officials said a vote was possible this fall, after the political conventions. On the highway bill, congressional GOP sources said that Bush was will ing to accept a six-year measure cost ing just under $284 billion— the level he has threatened previously to veto. That's nearly $30 billion higher than the president initially proposed but far below the $318 billion provided in a Senate-passed measure. 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Several Republicans said Bush con veyed his views on both the tax cut bill and the highway measure in a brief Oval Office conversation with Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. John Feehery, Hastert's spokesman, de clined comment. Together, the tax and highway bills underscore the difficulty confronting Republicans as they attempt to enact legislation that exposes divisions with in their own ranks. While most GOP lawmakers favor tax cuts, many also are eager for a costly highway bill, hoping it will create construction jobs at home. Yet for many, these priorities bump up against a desire to restrain deficits. The House and Senate have yet to agree on an overall budget for the year— an impasse that stems largely from disagreement over the wisdom over the wisdom of additional large tax cuts in an era of record deficits. Democrats have sought to turn such disputes to their political advantage. 'The American public is seeing a Con gress that is dysfunctional," said House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md. Many conservative lawmakers prefer a five-year extension of expir ing tax cuts, hoping not only for the economic benefit but also for the po litical boost on an issue that favors the GOP. Frist and Hasten agreed late Tuesday on the two-year extension instead, a compromise designed to gain the sup port of Senate GOP moderates who fear the bill's impact on record deficits. Before Bush torpedoed the propos al, Frist made clear he'd like to see the tax cuts extended more than two years, perhaps permanently. "Is that asking too much at this junc ture?" he said. "I don't think so, but I've got a lot of people to consider." That was a reference to moderate Senate Republicans as well as De mocrats who said they wanted a shorter-term bill. "Our members are hungry for something that will pass," said Stuart Roy, spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "They want to get something that prevents the tax increase." "1 think the two-year deal ought to fly," said Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. Under current law, a child tax credit now pegged at $ 1,000 would revert to $700 on Jan. 1, 2005. Also, a portion of income currently taxed at 10 per cent would face a levy of 15 percent. Additionally, some couples would be hit by a so-called marriage penalty that Congress eased last year. Failure to enact an extension would also expose more taxpayers to the al ternative minimum tax. Originally de signed to prevent wealthy individuals from avoiding taxes, the AMT now falls on an increasing number of mid dle class families. Congressional negotiators on the highway measure said they would meet on Thursday, and House bar gainers are expected to seek agree ment on a compromise that meets Bush's new conditions. It was unclear how the Senate would respond. Earlier this week, Sen. Jim In hofe, R-Okla., outlined a $289 billion measure and described it as "the only compromise that is sellable." Several senators of both parties said they favor a larger measure. David Espo and Mary Dalrymple are writers for the Associated Press. DONNER continued from page 1 this indicates hunting was taking place because some of the shot appears deformed from impact with bone. After determining if any of the re mains are human, Tasa said he will be look for tool marks and other evi dence that the flesh from those bones was processed for consumption. The sheer number of bone fragments— several thousand in all— makes this a daunting task. "It's going to take several months to go through the entire assem blage, "Tasa said. After the bone has been analyzed, Tasa and Schablitsky will send some of the larger pieces to a forensic lab for DNA analysis, hoping to link the remains to living relatives of the Donners. Tasa said all of the bones found at the site have been "calcined," mean ing that they were broken up and then boiled down to make a broth called "bone grease." This process is used to extract as many nutrients from bone as possible. Researchers at the site are also using this opportunity to study a starvation diet and learn to recognize it archeo logically. The Alder Creek site was discovered by archeologists Donald Hardesty and Susan Lindstrom in 1990. At the time, Hardesty and Lindstrom could not confirm that the site was the infa mous Donner encampment but, pri vately, they had their suspicions. Years later, Schablitsky was inter viewed by the Discovery Channel for her doctoral work on extracting DNA from artifacts. During an interview with Discovery Channel officials, Schablitsky mentioned the Donner party camp site. 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"Finding pieces of the writing slate brings to my mind a vignette of (Tamzene) trying to normalize the sit uation by teaching her children arith metic and spelling around the fire," Schablitsky said. Both Schablitsky and Tasa will teach classes this fall at the Universi ty. Tasa will teach Human Biological Variation, Anthropology 362. Sch ablitsky will teach Historical Arche ology, Anthropology 510. Both plan to weave portions of the Donner dig into their classes. benbrown@dailyemerald.com FUJICOLOR |p B 0 C E S S I N G. I TTI PHOTO SPECIALS ]ul 19 -]ul 25 REPRINTS AND ENLARGEMENTS From full-frame, 35mm color negatives. 3x5 6 for 96$ 4x6 5 for $1.00 5x7 2 for $1.50 8x10 1 for $1.50 8x12 1 for $1.50 Please allow up to 3-5 working days for 3x5 and 4x6 prints, 5 10 working days for 5x7, 8x10 and 8x1 2 prints. 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