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WASHINGTON--The question of whether parents should be allowed a tax deduction for a fetus that lives only moments after an abortion is blocking Senate confirmation of Lawrence B. Gibbs to be IRS commissioner.
Because of the abortion issue, the IRS is operating without a commissioner at a time when Congress is writing the final version of a major tax-overhaul plan.
Roscoe L. Egger Jr. retired on April 30. Gibbs' nomination was recommended unanimously by the Senate Finance Committee on June 24.
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