Topic: Mitch McConnell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday bowed to pressure from both within and outside his party and agreed to a short-term deal to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans.In what could be an end ...
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress, facing end-of-year deadline pressures and an unhappy electorate, rushed on Thursday to find compromises on legislation to keep the federal government functioning through 2012 and extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans.After weeks of stuck ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats on Wednesday signaled a willingness to drop a proposed surtax on millionaires, but remained at odds with Republicans in efforts to extend an expiring payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans.Obama discussed abandoning ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell predicted on Sunday that Congress will renew a popular payroll tax cut, but it remained unclear how lawmakers will resolve deep differences before the December 31 deadline.While he did not unveil a new deal, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday that Congress will somehow reach an agreement to renew a popular payroll tax cut set to expire at the end of this month."Of course, it has bipartisan support," McConnell told "Fox ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress on Tuesday threw their support behind a payroll tax cut extension, trying to blunt charges ahead of 2012 elections of favoring wealthy Americans over middle-class workers.Until Tuesday, Republicans had been lukewarm on extending President Barack Obama's ...
President Barack Obama attacked Republicans blocking his jobs bill, as deepening political vitriol over the quickening 2012 election campaign flared tempers in polarized Washington.A day after admitting he was an "underdog" in his reelection bid, Obama headed to the Republican heartland of ...
President Barack Obama's top critic in the US Senate on Tuesday blasted the White House's new $447 billion blueprint for battling high unemployment as "more of a reelection plan than a jobs plan."Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also rejected Obama's call ...
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