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Senate passes payroll tax extension, pushing bill to House
The Senate voted Saturday to temporarily avert a Jan. 1 payroll tax increase and benefit cutoff for the long-time unemployed, forcing Obama to make an election-year choice between unions and environmentalists over whether to OK the Keystone oil pipeline.
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Senate OKs short-term extension of payroll tax cut (AP)
AP – The Senate has approved a two-month extension of a cut to the Social Security payroll tax and agreed to continue jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.
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Poll: Most Americans want payroll tax extension (AP)
AP – Most Americans want Congress to vote to continue the payroll tax reduction, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that comes as Democrats and Republicans wrestle over whether to extend the cut through 2012.
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GOP bigs predict an extension of payroll tax cut that’s a Democratic priority
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Congress will extend the payroll tax cut — even as he defended provisions in the House proposal the Obama administration opposes.
“I believe we should extend the payroll tax holiday another year,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said Sunday on “Fox News Sunday.”
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Adding Howard would lead to Deron extension
Deron Williams believes he and Dwight Howard have a mutual understanding: they want to play together. And if the Nets can somehow pull off a trade with the Magic the Nets point guard is not only certain Howard would sign an extension to play in Brooklyn, it would be enough to keep him around, too.
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Obama pushes payroll tax cut extension (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama wants voters to get involved in the debate over extending the payroll tax holiday, and he’s asking them to tell members of Congress to keep the tax cut in place.
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Next moves unclear on payroll tax cut extension (AP)
AP – Senate defeat of competing Democratic and Republican plans to extend a cut in the Social Security payroll tax has punted the issue to the House, where GOP leaders are facing ideological divisions within the party over whether to pass the tax holiday.
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