http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-house-...223755555.html
AP – 1 hr 51 mins ago.....
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker
John Boehner predicted Monday that the House will approve legislation that renews a
payroll tax cut and curtails extra benefits for the long-term unemployed.
The House is expected to approve the roughly $180 billion measure on Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said the bill will go nowhere in
the Senate, citing a provision all but forcing
President Barack Obama to move ahead quickly with a controversial oil pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas.
Senate Democrats' version of the bill pays its costs largely by boosting taxes on the wealthy. Republicans prefer freezing federal workers pay and other spending cuts.
The House legislation would continue the Social Security payroll tax that workers pay at 4.2 percent in 2012, the same as this year. That tax is normally 6.2 percent, but was temporarily cut in a bid to spur the economy. The reduction means an extra $1,000 in the wallets of families earning $50,000 annually.
The Democrats' Senate bill, which that chamber has already rejected, would drop the payroll tax to 3.1 percent next year and provide employers with similar reductions, as Obama has proposed.
If Congress takes no action by Jan. 1, the payroll tax will return to 6.2 percent. Congress is hoping to adjourn for the year before Christmas.....snip~
It also cuts employment benefits down to 59 weeks from 99. Plus it would cut medicare reinbursements to docotors. Yet no sooner as Beohner came out with this announcment Reid chimed in saying it was going nowheres. Once again seems the Pols are looking to go home for Christmas. U-know take another holiday with all the othrs they took.
These guys have no plans on working together. They would rather strip us of our rights as long as they still get to play aristocrat. Time for the people to start getting off into these pols faces. When all other recourses are done. There will only be one alternative left to use upon them all. Unfortunately.....it will mean violence.