House Passes Extension of Payroll Tax Cut
WASHINGTON — air max shoes Defying a veto threat from President Obama, the House on Tuesday passed a bill extending a cut in Social Security payroll taxes for 160 million Americans for another year. But the Democratic majority in the Senate vowed to reject the measure because of objections to other provisions, including one to speed construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
“Speaker Boehner can’t pass anything in the House without Democratic votes, because anything you pass with strictly Republican votes fails over here,” Mr. Reid said. “In the Senate, we can’t pass anything unless we get Republican votes. It’s a fact of life- air max sale .”
Mr. Obama said last week that he would reject any effort to tie the oil pipeline to the payroll tax cut. In its veto threat on Tuesday, the White House complained that House Republicans were protecting tax breaks for the wealthy and injecting “ideological issues into what should be a simple debate about cutting taxes for the middle class.”
“I support the pipeline, but I also respect the president’s views that he does not want to be pushed into a decision,” said Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana. “So I haven’t made a final decision
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