Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) plans to urge the supercommittee to overhaul the tax code. In a speech he plans to deliver at the Economic Club of Washington on Thursday, Boehner will propose that the selected lawmakers lower the corporate tax rate and close loopholes instead of seeking tax increases. He will also urge them to consider entitlement reform.
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