Business worries play quiet role in delay of Camp tax plan

Business worries play quiet role in delay of Camp tax plan
  By: Rachael Bade
  November 16, 2013 08:59 AM EST

Some of tax reform’s   biggest corporate cheerleaders played a quiet role in the GOP leadership   decision Thursday to put off Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp’s plan to mark   up a tax reform bill in the coming weeks, according to leadership sources.

Some Republican aides   and lawmakers said this week that a prime reason Speaker John Boehner and his   top lieutenants asked the Michigan Republican to slow down was because they   didn’t want to interrupt Republicans’ winning momentum on the Obamacare   debacle.

But that’s only part of   the story.

The decision was also   driven by some of the most adamant business backers of tax reform, who went   around Camp and took their case straight to GOP leadership, a House   Republican leadership aide said.

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