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Dec 14, 2011, 8:30:54 AM12/14/11
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House GOP passes payroll tax bill, gains leverage on Senate Dems
12/14/11
House Republicans easily approved a one-year extension of the payroll
tax cut over a presidential veto threat Tuesday, setting up a
confrontation with the White House and Senate Democrats.
The 234-193 vote throws the GOP year-end package into the Senate’s
lap, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed to reject it over
a number of provisions that Democrats find unacceptable.
The maneuvering added yet another twist in a rapidly closing window
for Congress to act on several high-priority issues. Two major
year-end pieces of legislation, the payroll tax package and an omnibus
spending bill, converged politically as Republicans accused Reid of
holding up an agreement on the spending bill until the GOP made
concessions on the payroll tax measure.
As the legislative calendar winds down its final days, a $1,000 tax
bill for the average family, insurance benefits for the jobless and
the operations of the federal government all hang in the balance.
Republican leaders used the House vote to pressure the Senate and
Obama, denouncing the president for threatening a veto on a bill that
includes two central elements of his jobs plan — the payroll tax
holiday and unemployment benefits.
“We’ve passed a large bill that contains many of the priorities of our
caucus and the White House. We’ve worked to find common ground,” House
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters after the vote. “Now
Senate Democrats must act.”
Senate Democrats said Tuesday evening they wanted to vote on the House
bill immediately but that Republicans objected.
The White House, which earlier on Tuesday threatened to veto the House
package, ripped the House vote.
“This Congress needs to do its job and stop the tax hike that’s
scheduled to affect 160 million Americans in 18 days,” White House
press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. “It is our expectation
that in the eleventh hour Congressional Republicans and Democrats will
come to an agreement to protect the middle class and finish their
budget work for the year,” he said.
The administration’s veto threat referenced provisions that
Republicans use to pay for the bill, including the repeal of funding
for the 2010 healthcare law and measures that, the White House said,
broke a spending agreement hatched this summer during the debt-limit
deal. Obama has previously threatened to reject the GOP bill over the
inclusion of a measure forcing the administration to expedite a
decision on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
“This debate should not be about scoring political points. This debate
should be about cutting taxes for the middle class,” the
administration said in its veto threat.
Boehner added many of those items to win support from conservatives,
but he lost the votes of most House Democrats in the process. All but
10 Democrats opposed the legislation after party leaders whipped their
members against it. The Democrats who voted yes all waited until the
bill was assured of passage before casting their votes.
GOP leaders spent the day trying to cobble together as much Republican
unity as possible. While Boehner and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.) vowed during a morning press conference that the bill would
pass, the Speaker told his conference he was pushing for 240 GOP votes
to give him additional leverage and “a strong hand” in negotiations
with Democrats. He lost 14 Republicans in the final vote.
Highlighting the confrontation with Obama over the Keystone pipeline,
Boehner has been able to win over conservatives who were initially
opposed to the president’s push to extend the payroll tax holiday and
unemployment benefits. In addition to the Keystone provision,
Republicans included measures delaying environmental regulations,
limiting the duration of jobless benefits and restricting benefits for
illegal immigrants, among other sweeteners. They proposed to offset
the cost of the bill in part by extending a federal-worker pay freeze
and reducing certain Medicare benefits for the wealthy.
Democrats assailed the GOP for including extraneous and “ideological”
items in the bill. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the
Keystone provision “a poison pill” and the No. 2 House Democrat, Rep.
Steny Hoyer (Md.), said it was “a stick … in the eye” of Democrats.
Pelosi questioned whether Republicans wanted to see the payroll tax
extended at all.
Across the Capitol, Reid said House Republicans were wasting their
time in sending over legislation that he has declared dead on arrival.
At press time, Reid accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) of blocking a vote on the House-passed measure.
McConnell could be worried about defections. Earlier this month,
McConnell’s alternative payroll tax holiday bill was rejected by most
of his GOP colleagues. Reid said late Tuesday that he can’t schedule
an immediate roll call without McConnell’s approval. He added such a
vote would be an “exercise in futility,” though necessary to jumpstart
bipartisan negotiations.
Reid signaled he is open to a compromise on the payroll tax cut in
which it is not offset by either tax hikes or spending cuts.
“There should be a contribution, ever be it so slight, by the
wealthiest of the wealthy,” Reid said of Democratic efforts to pay for
the measure with higher taxes on annual income above a million
dollars.
But when asked if he could support an extension that was not offset,
he replied, “Yes.”
Republican leaders have said the payroll tax cut and the jobless
benefits must be paid for, and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
reiterated that position Tuesday.
{mossecondads}Meanwhile, each side let loose with accusations about
the motivations of the other in the year-end wrangling. Republicans
charged that Reid was holding the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill
“hostage” until the GOP agreed to an acceptable deal on the payroll
tax.
“They’ve smiled at each other, they’ve shook hands and it’s done,”
Boehner said.
Hoyer acknowledged that the substance of the legislation was “98
percent done” but that the sequencing was an issue. At the same time,
the Maryland Democrat rejected the charge that Reid was obstructing
the bill.
Hoyer cited a concern echoed by other Democrats: that Republicans
wanted to pass their version of the payroll tax cut and the spending
bill and leave town, forcing the Senate to accept them unchanged.
“There is a concern that we would pass the megabus and that
Republicans would then go home,” Hoyer said, referring to a package of
spending bills funding much of the federal government through 2012.
“Now Speaker Boehner has assured me they won’t do that.”
Asked to respond to Hoyer’s comments, a Boehner spokesman, Michael
Steel, said: “We will be waiting for the Senate to act.”
In a final sales pitch before the House vote Tuesday, Boehner told his
members the bill “is a good piece of legislation” that has “been
worked on by everybody.”
“[Boehner said] it needs to get done, and instead of allowing the
Senate to stab the country in the back, we need to finish our work,”
said Rep. Tom Price (Ga.), the chairman of the Republican Policy
Committee.
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House GOP passes payroll tax bill, gains leverage on Senate Dems
12/14/11
House Republicans easily approved a one-year extension of the payroll
tax cut over a presidential veto threat Tuesday, setting up a
confrontation with the White House and Senate Democrats.
The 234-193 vote throws the GOP year-end package into the Senate’s
lap, where Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed to reject it over
a number of provisions that Democrats find unacceptable.
The maneuvering added yet another twist in a rapidly closing window
for Congress to act on several high-priority issues. Two major
year-end pieces of legislation, the payroll tax package and an omnibus
spending bill, converged politically as Republicans accused Reid of
holding up an agreement on the spending bill until the GOP made
concessions on the payroll tax measure.
As the legislative calendar winds down its final days, a $1,000 tax
bill for the average family, insurance benefits for the jobless and
the operations of the federal government all hang in the balance.
Republican leaders used the House vote to pressure the Senate and
Obama, denouncing the president for threatening a veto on a bill that
includes two central elements of his jobs plan — the payroll tax
holiday and unemployment benefits.
“We’ve passed a large bill that contains many of the priorities of our
caucus and the White House. We’ve worked to find common ground,” House
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters after the vote. “Now
Senate Democrats must act.”
Senate Democrats said Tuesday evening they wanted to vote on the House
bill immediately but that Republicans objected.
The White House, which earlier on Tuesday threatened to veto the House
package, ripped the House vote.
“This Congress needs to do its job and stop the tax hike that’s
scheduled to affect 160 million Americans in 18 days,” White House
press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. “It is our expectation
that in the eleventh hour Congressional Republicans and Democrats will
come to an agreement to protect the middle class and finish their
budget work for the year,” he said.
The administration’s veto threat referenced provisions that
Republicans use to pay for the bill, including the repeal of funding
for the 2010 healthcare law and measures that, the White House said,
broke a spending agreement hatched this summer during the debt-limit
deal. Obama has previously threatened to reject the GOP bill over the
inclusion of a measure forcing the administration to expedite a
decision on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
“This debate should not be about scoring political points. This debate
should be about cutting taxes for the middle class,” the
administration said in its veto threat.
Boehner added many of those items to win support from conservatives,
but he lost the votes of most House Democrats in the process. All but
10 Democrats opposed the legislation after party leaders whipped their
members against it. The Democrats who voted yes all waited until the
bill was assured of passage before casting their votes.
GOP leaders spent the day trying to cobble together as much Republican
unity as possible. While Boehner and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.) vowed during a morning press conference that the bill would
pass, the Speaker told his conference he was pushing for 240 GOP votes
to give him additional leverage and “a strong hand” in negotiations
with Democrats. He lost 14 Republicans in the final vote.
Highlighting the confrontation with Obama over the Keystone pipeline,
Boehner has been able to win over conservatives who were initially
opposed to the president’s push to extend the payroll tax holiday and
unemployment benefits. In addition to the Keystone provision,
Republicans included measures delaying environmental regulations,
limiting the duration of jobless benefits and restricting benefits for
illegal immigrants, among other sweeteners. They proposed to offset
the cost of the bill in part by extending a federal-worker pay freeze
and reducing certain Medicare benefits for the wealthy.
Democrats assailed the GOP for including extraneous and “ideological”
items in the bill. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the
Keystone provision “a poison pill” and the No. 2 House Democrat, Rep.
Steny Hoyer (Md.), said it was “a stick … in the eye” of Democrats.
Pelosi questioned whether Republicans wanted to see the payroll tax
extended at all.
Across the Capitol, Reid said House Republicans were wasting their
time in sending over legislation that he has declared dead on arrival.
At press time, Reid accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) of blocking a vote on the House-passed measure.
McConnell could be worried about defections. Earlier this month,
McConnell’s alternative payroll tax holiday bill was rejected by most
of his GOP colleagues. Reid said late Tuesday that he can’t schedule
an immediate roll call without McConnell’s approval. He added such a
vote would be an “exercise in futility,” though necessary to jumpstart
bipartisan negotiations.
Reid signaled he is open to a compromise on the payroll tax cut in
which it is not offset by either tax hikes or spending cuts.
“There should be a contribution, ever be it so slight, by the
wealthiest of the wealthy,” Reid said of Democratic efforts to pay for
the measure with higher taxes on annual income above a million
dollars.
But when asked if he could support an extension that was not offset,
he replied, “Yes.”
Republican leaders have said the payroll tax cut and the jobless
benefits must be paid for, and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
reiterated that position Tuesday.
{mossecondads}Meanwhile, each side let loose with accusations about
the motivations of the other in the year-end wrangling. Republicans
charged that Reid was holding the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill
“hostage” until the GOP agreed to an acceptable deal on the payroll
tax.
“They’ve smiled at each other, they’ve shook hands and it’s done,”
Boehner said.
Hoyer acknowledged that the substance of the legislation was “98
percent done” but that the sequencing was an issue. At the same time,
the Maryland Democrat rejected the charge that Reid was obstructing
the bill.
Hoyer cited a concern echoed by other Democrats: that Republicans
wanted to pass their version of the payroll tax cut and the spending
bill and leave town, forcing the Senate to accept them unchanged.
“There is a concern that we would pass the megabus and that
Republicans would then go home,” Hoyer said, referring to a package of
spending bills funding much of the federal government through 2012.
“Now Speaker Boehner has assured me they won’t do that.”
Asked to respond to Hoyer’s comments, a Boehner spokesman, Michael
Steel, said: “We will be waiting for the Senate to act.”
In a final sales pitch before the House vote Tuesday, Boehner told his
members the bill “is a good piece of legislation” that has “been
worked on by everybody.”
“[Boehner said] it needs to get done, and instead of allowing the
Senate to stab the country in the back, we need to finish our work,”
said Rep. Tom Price (Ga.), the chairman of the Republican Policy
Committee.
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CrazyAboutTV
Dec 14, 2011, 3:47:57 PM12/14/11
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If Republicans were serious about extending the tax cuts they wouldn't
have attached a rushed through approval for the Canadian oil pipeline
to the bill. When you propose a bill that you are absolutely certain
will not pass in the other house of Congress or will be vetoed by the
President then you are not being honest.
The government works by compromise, not by pulling sneaky little
tricks to make it seem like you are doing one thing when you are
really doing something else.
In just one more case of no compromise, Republicans simply passed a
bill in the House that they knew would never pass so they could say
that they came up with a solution but the stupid Democrats wouldn't go
along.
Everything they do is all about putting a Republican in the White
House and the country can go to hell in the mean time.
have attached a rushed through approval for the Canadian oil pipeline
to the bill. When you propose a bill that you are absolutely certain
will not pass in the other house of Congress or will be vetoed by the
President then you are not being honest.
The government works by compromise, not by pulling sneaky little
tricks to make it seem like you are doing one thing when you are
really doing something else.
In just one more case of no compromise, Republicans simply passed a
bill in the House that they knew would never pass so they could say
that they came up with a solution but the stupid Democrats wouldn't go
along.
Everything they do is all about putting a Republican in the White
House and the country can go to hell in the mean time.
Buster Norris (Stomps On Pansy Lib's Fat Faces and Laughs)
Dec 14, 2011, 9:10:03 PM12/14/11
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:47:57 -0800 (PST), CrazyAboutTV
<tampa...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: CrazyAboutTV <tampa...@gmail.com>
Organization: http://groups.google.com
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Lake Tarpon Resort: ITCD-66-0-153-184
Lake Tarpon Resort
37611 Us Highway 19 North
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
<tampa...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: CrazyAboutTV <tampa...@gmail.com>
Organization: http://groups.google.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.153.186
DeltCom: 66.0.153.184 - 66.0.153.191
Lake Tarpon Resort: ITCD-66-0-153-184
Lake Tarpon Resort
37611 Us Highway 19 North
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Patriot Games http://www.democrathallofshame.com
Dec 16, 2011, 11:17:00 AM12/16/11
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>The government works by compromise, not by pulling sneaky little
>tricks to make it seem like you are doing one thing when you are
>really doing something else.
Are you claiming DemocRATs never add unrelated things to bills???
>tricks to make it seem like you are doing one thing when you are
>really doing something else.
>Everything they do is all about putting a Republican in the White
And that's a great idea!
Patriot Games http://www.democrathallofshame.com
Dec 16, 2011, 11:18:58 AM12/16/11
to
guest at the resort, could even be somebody grabbing free wifi at the
restaurant...
Buster Norris (Stomps On Pansy Lib's Fat Faces and Laughs)
Dec 16, 2011, 7:21:32 PM12/16/11
to
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:18:58 -0500, "Patriot Games
http://www.democrathallofshame.com"
for a nooner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Palm Harbor................ Coincidence?????????????????
http://www.democrathallofshame.com"
<patrio...@democrathallofshame.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:10:03 -0500, "Buster Norris (Stomps On Pansy
>Lib's Fat Faces and Laughs)" <bustyo...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:47:57 -0800 (PST), CrazyAboutTV
>><tampa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>From: CrazyAboutTV <tampa...@gmail.com>
>>Organization: http://groups.google.com
>>NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.153.186
>>DeltCom: 66.0.153.184 - 66.0.153.191
>>Lake Tarpon Resort: ITCD-66-0-153-184
>>Lake Tarpon Resort
>>37611 Us Highway 19 North
>>Palm Harbor, FL 34684
>
>He/she/it is posting through Google so it could be an employee, a
>guest at the resort, could even be somebody grabbing free wifi at the
>restaurant...
I'm betting it was Returdia meeting one of his nigger faggot lovers
>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:10:03 -0500, "Buster Norris (Stomps On Pansy
>Lib's Fat Faces and Laughs)" <bustyo...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:47:57 -0800 (PST), CrazyAboutTV
>><tampa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>From: CrazyAboutTV <tampa...@gmail.com>
>>Organization: http://groups.google.com
>>NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.153.186
>>DeltCom: 66.0.153.184 - 66.0.153.191
>>Lake Tarpon Resort: ITCD-66-0-153-184
>>Lake Tarpon Resort
>>37611 Us Highway 19 North
>>Palm Harbor, FL 34684
>
>He/she/it is posting through Google so it could be an employee, a
>guest at the resort, could even be somebody grabbing free wifi at the
>restaurant...
for a nooner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Palm Harbor................ Coincidence?????????????????
Patriot Games http://www.democrathallofshame.com
Dec 17, 2011, 9:31:30 AM12/17/11
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:21:32 -0500, "Buster Norris (Stomps On Pansy
says they're about $80/day and the Super-8 is about $40/day...
Maybe he got a part-time job there cleaning toilets and changing
sheets?
>Palm Harbor................ Coincidence?????????????????
Yeah... I hear ya...
Lib's Fat Faces and Laughs)" <bustyo...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:18:58 -0500, "Patriot Games
>http://www.democrathallofshame.com"
><patrio...@democrathallofshame.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:10:03 -0500, "Buster Norris (Stomps On Pansy
>>Lib's Fat Faces and Laughs)" <bustyo...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>>>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:47:57 -0800 (PST), CrazyAboutTV
>>><tampa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>From: CrazyAboutTV <tampa...@gmail.com>
>>>Organization: http://groups.google.com
>>>NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.153.186
>>>DeltCom: 66.0.153.184 - 66.0.153.191
>>>Lake Tarpon Resort: ITCD-66-0-153-184
>>>Lake Tarpon Resort
>>>37611 Us Highway 19 North
>>>Palm Harbor, FL 34684
>>He/she/it is posting through Google so it could be an employee, a
>>guest at the resort, could even be somebody grabbing free wifi at the
>>restaurant...
>I'm betting it was Returdia meeting one of his nigger faggot lovers
>for a nooner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dunno... Kinda pricey for a bottom-feeder on Social Security... Web
>On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:18:58 -0500, "Patriot Games
>http://www.democrathallofshame.com"
><patrio...@democrathallofshame.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:10:03 -0500, "Buster Norris (Stomps On Pansy
>>Lib's Fat Faces and Laughs)" <bustyo...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>>>On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:47:57 -0800 (PST), CrazyAboutTV
>>><tampa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>From: CrazyAboutTV <tampa...@gmail.com>
>>>Organization: http://groups.google.com
>>>NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.153.186
>>>DeltCom: 66.0.153.184 - 66.0.153.191
>>>Lake Tarpon Resort: ITCD-66-0-153-184
>>>Lake Tarpon Resort
>>>37611 Us Highway 19 North
>>>Palm Harbor, FL 34684
>>He/she/it is posting through Google so it could be an employee, a
>>guest at the resort, could even be somebody grabbing free wifi at the
>>restaurant...
>I'm betting it was Returdia meeting one of his nigger faggot lovers
>for a nooner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
says they're about $80/day and the Super-8 is about $40/day...
Maybe he got a part-time job there cleaning toilets and changing
sheets?
>Palm Harbor................ Coincidence?????????????????
Yeah... I hear ya...
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