Topic: Barack Obama

Boehner surrenders in tax showdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner caved in to growing criticism from within and outside his Republican Party, agreeing on Thursday to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans.In a dramatic reversal that appeared to ...

Speaker Boehner surrenders in tax showdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner caved in to growing criticism from within and outside his Republican Party, agreeing on Thursday to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans.In a dramatic reversal that ...

Speaker Boehner bows to pressure on tax deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday caved in to a growing chorus of criticism from both within and outside his Republican party and agreed to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million ...

Senate Republican McConnell tries to end tax impasse

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The top Senate Republican on Thursday sought to break a year-end stalemate with Democrats over extending a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, an issue that has split his party and raised the risk of a ...

Senate Republican tries to end tax impasse

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The top Senate Republican on Thursday sought to break a year-end stalemate with Democrats over extending a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, an issue that has split his party and raised the risk of a ...

Obama presses Boehner to compromise on tax deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a bid to end a worsening standoff over extending a tax break for Americans, President Barack Obama called on Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday to pass a short-term extension and return to talks on ...

Analysis: Republicans risk backlash in 2012

(Reuters) - They began this year vowing to slash spending and reduce government.Republicans in Congress can boast that they have done just that: As 2011 ends, they have wrung $2 trillion in spending cuts from Democrats without conceding a penny in tax ...

Republicans under pressure over payroll tax cut

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans were under growing pressure on Wednesday to agree to a 60-day extension of an expiring payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and end a stand-off with Democrats that threatens to undercut a fragile economic recovery.If the Congress ...

House Republicans push for new payroll tax cut talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led House of Representatives will set the stage on Tuesday for a showdown with Senate Democrats over a payroll tax cut extension that is becoming a proxy for 2012 election year battles.The tax legislation has become the latest ...

US lawmakers to vote on holiday tax Tuesday

Republican lawmakers escalated a year-end showdown with the White House, putting off a vote on extending a payroll tax holiday demanded by President Barack Obama until Tuesday.Party leaders in the House of Representatives rejected a compromise hammered out by Democrats and Republicans ...
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