The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a bill Wednesday to lessen a tax break given to upper-income earners who itemize on their individual income tax returns, a measure pushed by Gov. John Bel Edwards to balance next year's budget. A rewritten version of the proposal by Rep. Malinda White, D-Bogalusa, would make it a short-term loan of sorts, with taxpayers able to recoup the tax breaks in 2018.