Category Archives: Senate

House rejects payroll tax stopgap, hardening standoff

By doris | Published: December 21, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com House Republicans moved Tuesday to reject a Senate-passed tax cut extension, hardening a standoff over whether to extend an expiring payroll tax cut and clouding the prospects for a clear resolution to prevent a tax hike on Jan. 1. The House passed a measure that served the twin purposes of implicitly [...]

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House to vote Tuesday on Senate payroll tax plan

By doris | Published: December 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — House Republican leaders put off until Tuesday a vote on a Senate plan to extend the payroll tax cut and said they were willing to work until the end of the year to negotiate a compromise with Senate Democrats. The vote had been expected Monday night, but after [...]

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Senate approves two-month extension of payroll tax cut

By doris | Published: December 17, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The Senate on Saturday voted to extend the payroll tax cut by two months, after both sides were unable to reach a comprehensive agreement to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for a full year. The deal, passed in a 89-10 vote, includes a provision to [...]

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Senate passes defense authorization bill

By doris | Published: December 15, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The Senate gave approval Thursday to a giant $662 billion defense authorization bill, sending it to President Barack Obama for his signature. On Wednesday, the White House lifted a veto threat against the bill after legislators made changes in language involving detainees. In particular, the legislators added language [...]

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Senate blocks nominee to lead financial protection agency

By doris | Published: December 8, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com The Senate blocked confirmation on Thursday of Richard Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general picked by President Obama to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Democrats fell short of the 60 votes they needed in a procedural vote to move forward with the nomination of Cordray. Senate Republicans had spoken [...]

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Senate blocks $60B part of Obama jobs plan

By doris | Published: November 4, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com The Senate on Thursday blocked another portion of President Obama’s jobs plan, a $60 billion bill to fund infrastructure projects around the country. This is the second piece of the president’s proposal to be voted on and rejected in the Senate. The bill would have invested $50 billion dollars to fund [...]

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Senate passes $182B spending bill

By doris | Published: November 1, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Senate has approved must-do legislation to fund the day-to-day budgets of five Cabinet agencies, kick-starting long overdue work to add the details to budget limits agreed to by President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans this summer. The bipartisan 69-30 vote came on a $182 billion bundle of three [...]

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Senate Dems press ahead with latest piece of j

By doris | Published: October 27, 2011

Full Story at First Read.msnbc.msn.com Senate Democrats on Friday rolled out the next phase in their push to pass individual parts of President Obama’s jobs bill: a $60 billion bill to invest in infrastructure projects around the country. In a conference call less than 24 hours after the Senate blocked a jobs bill for teachers [...]

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Senate blocks votes on jobs bills

By doris | Published: October 21, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Democrats and Republicans tried to force versions of a jobs bill through the Senate late Thursday, but both fell short of the 60 votes they would have needed to bring their proposals to the floor. In a 50-50 vote, senators blocked a component of President Barack Obama’s jobs [...]

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Sizing up the millionaire tax

By doris | Published: October 9, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — If Senate Democrats have their way, millionaires and billionaires will pay more in taxes for President Obama’s jobs bill. How much? Answer: $110,467 a year. That’s the average additional amount they would owe in federal taxes starting in 2013, according to estimates released Thursday by the nonpartisan [...]

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Senate Democrats add millionaire tax to jobs bill

By doris | Published: October 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are rewriting portions of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill to include a new 5 percent tax on income above $1 million — a proposal that is sure to be blocked by Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday he is changing the plan to make [...]

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House passes Boehner debt ceiling plan

By doris | Published: July 29, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday narrowly passed Speaker John Boehner’s plan to raise the nation’s the debt ceiling and slash government spending, sending the measure to Senate Democrats who have promised to immediately defeat it. Boehner’s proposal was approved by the House in a sharply polarized [...]

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