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House begins debating payroll tax cut

Yazan: | 06 January 2012 | No Comments
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House Speaker John Boehner at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, as Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., listens at right. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) House Speaker John Boehner at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, as Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., listens at [...]

Senate OKs payroll tax cut, huge spending bill (AP)

Yazan: | 01 January 2012 | No Comments
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WASHINGTON ? The Senate voted Saturday to temporarily avert a Jan. 1 payroll tax increase and benefit cutoff for the long-time unemployed, 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. The action set up a [...]

House GOP to reject stopgap payroll tax cut

Yazan: | 30 December 2011 | No Comments
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House Speaker John Boehner at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, as Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., listens at right. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) House Speaker John Boehner at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, as Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., listens at [...]

House Republicans reject 2-month payroll tax cut

Yazan: | 23 December 2011 | No Comments
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. Republicans in the House of Representatives are set to block a Senate proposal to extend a popular tax cut for working Americans for two months, setting up a showdown between Boehner and his own party [...]

Finally, some bipartisanship _ oops, nevermind

Yazan: | 23 December 2011 | No Comments
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House Speaker John Boehner heads from a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, to speak to the media. Partisan to the core, Congress careened toward a holiday-season standoff Monday on legislation to prevent a Social Security payroll tax increase for 160 million workers on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) House [...]