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Maryland Women's Caucus Returns With New Tubman Legislation

By KELSEY MILLER
Capital News Service

               ANNAPOLIS - After a failed attempt last year to put a Harriet Tubman statue in Congress' Statuary Hall, the Maryland women's caucus is trying again to get the state native what they feel is her due representation in national history.

From the Center for Vision and Values 
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like obsession on class warfare, a rich American paying an effective tax rate of “only” 15 percent is, a priori, a scandal of the first order.