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</p> Earlier this month, Republican Susan Collins (Maine) introduced a bill with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) that would levy a surtax on millionaires with a carve-out for small-business owners.
</p> New Jersey Reps.
and even media outlets normally friendly to their cause for refusing to even bring the two-month bill to the floor.
</p> AMA President Dr. Peter W.
</p> According to a GOP source, the House Republicans will put forth a new two-month bill to extend the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits and Medicare “doc fix” that would include a tweak to the
</p> Already out on a limb, House Republicans quickly found themselves on an island this afternoon after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called for Boehner to bring the Senate-passed bill
Senate Republicans and even some national media outlets for refusing to even bring the two-month bill to the floor.
</p> “This is not just my view,” Obama continued. “Just a few hours ago this is exactly what the Republican leader of the Senate said we should do.
</p> Carney dismissed House-passed legislation that would extend the tax cut for a full year, saying that bill is “filled with things that have nothing to do with the payroll tax cut.”
on the Senate-passed bill.
Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) made an equally operatic attempt to try to bring a bill to the floor during today’s pro forma session.
</p> “If the House Republicans refuse to vote for the Senate bill, or even allow it to come up for a vote, taxes will go up in 11 days,” Obama said.
</p> Though Members declined to directly give the Senate’s bill an up-or-down vote, the House passed a resolution 229-193 to reject the Senate language and go to conference.
</p> The Senate already adjourned for the year after passing a two-month extension to provide more negotiating time, but House Republicans rejected that bill today and sought to force a conference committee
</p> The committee noted, however, that it would revise the wording of rules governing legal trusts going forward.
</p> The Ohio Republican said the House will kill the Senate-passed bill in a vote this evening.
</p> House leadership postponed a vote on the Senate-passed payroll tax cut package, opting to take up the bill Tuesday instead.
bill designed to pass Congress and become law.
</p> In a statement, Reid responded to Speaker John Boehner’s rejection of the Senate-passed bill, and the House’s plan to vote that measure down tonight.
A bill by Speaker John Boehner to put a bust of Winston Churchill in the Capitol passed the House by voice vote today.