Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
Boehner to Senate: Let’s bargain on payroll tax (AP)
AP – House Republican leaders are renewing their call for the Democratic-led Senate to bargain with them and try to end the stalemate over extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits.
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House, Senate at odds over payroll tax cut (AP)
AP – The House and Senate barreled toward a collision Monday over some of the chief ingredients of President Barack Obama’s recipe for reviving the economy, with tax increases and jobless benefit cuts awaiting millions of Americans on New Year’s Day if the dispute is not resolved.
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Top Senate Dem insists on 2-month payroll tax cut (AP)
AP – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he will not renegotiate a year-long extension of payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits unless the House first approves a bipartisan two-month version that House Republicans strongly oppose.
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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 payroll tax cut, huge spending bill (AP)
AP – The Senate voted Saturday to temporarily avert a Jan. 1 payroll tax increase and benefit cutoff for the long-time unemployed, but forcing a reluctant President Barack Obama to make an election-year choice between unions and environmentalists over whether to build an oil pipeline through the heart of the country.
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Senate OKs $1T budget bill, payroll tax cut (AP)
AP – The Senate has passed a $1 trillion-plus year-end budget bill for President Barack Obama’s signature as part of a congressional endgame also featuring action on a two-month extension of a cut in the Social Security payroll tax and jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.
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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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