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Boehner Pushes for One Year Extension on Payroll Tax Cuts

18 December 2011

It’s not often that you’ll see me lauding House Speaker [entity display="John Boehner" type="person" active="true" key="john-boehner"]John Boehner[/entity] (R-OH) as the voice of reason but here it is: the man is one of just a handful in Congress making some sense with respect to these payroll tax cuts. Speaker Boehner is pushing for a full year [...]

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Super Committee: Obama’s Opening Bid on Taxes

10 August 2011

(Quick note from the taxgirl: Guest post by Brash Tax in response to the debt ceiling crisis and the Congressional fix. The post was submitted prior to any Super Committee nods or whispers.) Lawmakers are drawing baselines in the sand even before the Super Committee is named.  The distinctions among budget baselines are significant.  But [...]

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Senate GOP Balks At Boehner’s Suggestion

13 September 2010

Gosh, just this morning, it was all hand holding and Kum ba ya in DC. Okay, maybe not so much. But House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) did signal that he would likely support President Barack Obama’s plan to extend tax cuts for those families making less than $250,000. It clearly wasn’t his preference but [...]

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Boehner: If Loving Obama Is Wrong, Then I Don’t Want to Be Right

13 September 2010

Okay, maybe he didn’t take it *quite* that far. But taking a break from his earlier position, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has signaled that he would vote for President Obama’s plan to extend the Bush tax cuts only for the middle class. But then he added a big “if.” Boehner said he would [...]

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Bipartisan Efforts to Reduce Unemployment In the Works

8 February 2010

If there’s one thing that both parties in Congress can agree on, it’s that any hope for economic recovery is going to hinge on getting unemployment under control. At the end of 2009, one out of every ten Americans able to work wasn’t working. Fortunately, there’s some good news. Last month, the national unemployment rate [...]

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Vote on Stimulus Bill Expected on Monday

7 February 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has indicated that the newly “trimmed” stimulus package will go to a vote in the Senate on Monday. The bill now costs approximately $827 billion. You would have thought that the Senate had found the cure for cancer, as they congratulated each other for finally agreeing on something. They [...]

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GOP Counters Democrats’ Proposed Second Stimulus Package

13 October 2008

Earlier today, the GOP indicated that they are not on board with the Democrats’ proposal for a second economic stimulus package. There’s no surprise there. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), the top ranking Republican in the House, wrote a letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling the proposal: an irresponsible, business-as-usual approach that has earned this [...]

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