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Senate Passes Bill to Avoid Fiscal Cliff

richard1088 Wrote: Jan 01, 2013 12:51 PM
Your people voted for Rousseau's Noble Savage, live with the results!
SuperSam Wrote: Jan 01, 2013 12:54 PM

Reid refused to discuss a stack of bills out of the House for two years, let alone allow up on the Senate floor for a vote, then on the last minute.......... and where is the budget from Reid and Owebummer? Over 3 years without one.

Reid knows this, which is why he knows the House will return the favor if the Senate passes a bad bill.

Then the Dems will blame the Repubs for the Bush tax cuts expiring, which the Dems will "allow" to happen, and the Bush tax cuts will hit the lowest tax brackets with the highest percentage of a tax increase, along with everybody will lose half their child credit deduction.

The Senate voted early Tuesday morning 89-8 in favor of the scaled-down bipartisan package that would halt historic tax hikes for many Americans and postpone automatic spending cuts for two months. The bill will now go to the House, which is expected to be back in session at noon today.

The outlines of the deal Mr. McConnell and Mr. Biden worked out included raising tax rates for individuals making more than $400,000 and families with incomes more than $450,000, and extended unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless. It also continued a number of programs from Mr. Obama’s...

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