NARRATOR: A CNN viewer wants to know: Can Congress repeal or amend Bush's tax cut if the Democrats assume control of Congress and the presidency, or is it set in stone?</s>JONATHAN KARL, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The tax cut is certainly not set in stone. Congress could repeal, wholesale, the entire tax cut, but it would have to pass both the Senate and the House, and then it would have to be signed -- that repeal -- by a president willing to do away with this entire tax cut. Certainly that would not be President George Bush, unlikely that that would happen under any Republican president. And even if Congress does turn over to the Democrats entirely, not just the Senate, but also the House of Representatives, wholesale repeal of the tax cut is also unlikely because there were 12 Democrats in the U.S. Senate who voted for that tax cut, and over in the House there were 28 Democrats voting along with the Republicans in favor of the tax cut. So it would clearly take more than simply democratic control to repeal the tax cut.
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