日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

US Congress punts hard payroll tax work to 2012

Updated: 2011-12-24 12:02

(Agencies)

  Comments() Print Mail Large Medium  Small 分享按鈕 0

US Congress punts hard payroll tax work to 2012

US President Barack Obama speaks to the press after signing into law a two-month payroll tax cut extension in the press briefing room at the White House in Washington, Dec 23, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Friday, capping a year of fierce partisan combat over taxes and spending that will resume in January and play heavily in the 2012 elections.

The Senate and the House of Representatives, by voice votes in chambers nearly emptied for the holidays, passed a $33 billion bill to keep the payroll tax rate at 4.2 percent through February. It had been scheduled to increase on January 1 to 6.2 percent. Obama swiftly signed the bill.

"We have a lot more work to do," the president said at the White House. "This continues to be a make-or-break moment for the middle class ... There are going to be some important debates next year."

Obama heads to vacation in Hawaii with an important political win in his portfolio after he and fellow Democrats prevailed in the message war by backing lower taxes for middle-class Americans in the midst of a fragile economic recovery.

The battle took a toll on House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner, who were forced to make an embarrassing retreat and agree to a short-term deal Thursday after getting hit by critics on all sides, include their colleagues in the Senate.

The temporary fix lets lawmakers lower the curtain, for now, on a year of political deadlock that in the end produced only a series of inconclusive truces. The fiscal policy debate is set to rage straight through the 2012 election season and beyond.  

While Congress is on a long winter break now and does not return to full swing until late January, newly appointed negotiators are expected to begin work soon on figuring out how to pay for extending the payroll tax cut through 2012.

Republicans have sought a continued freeze on federal worker pay and cuts in Medicare benefits for the wealthy. Democrats have rejected both ideas while proposing a surtax on the wealthy to cover the extension's cost. Republicans reject this.

Both sides have been open to cutting federal workers' pension benefits. There also were last-minute Senate negotiations last week on possibly ending some tax breaks for the wealthy, such as a small one involving corporate jets.

Minutes after the bipartisan deal was passed by Congress, the bickering that has come to dominate Capitol Hill resumed.  

Republican Representative Tom Price, a leader of House conservatives, immediately criticized the short-term extension, calling it a "two-month punt" and saying it would not have been needed if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, and Obama had "been willing to do their job today."  

主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩欧美一本 | 亚洲国产成人在线视频 | 手机看片久久 | 户外少妇对白啪啪野战 | 免费成人深夜 | 91传媒理伦片在线观看 | 最新黄色av网站 | 超碰在线中文字幕 | av在线大全 | 337p亚洲欧洲色噜噜噜 | 成人午夜av | 国产精品a级 | 成人午夜免费影院 | 真实新婚偷拍xxxxx | 免费看一级黄色大片 | 日本www在线 | 欧美日韩国产在线一区 | 一区二区三区国产在线观看 | 狂野欧美性猛交xxxx巴西 | 日本不卡在线播放 | 天天操天天操天天操天天操 | 国产精品免费一区二区 | 亚洲精美视频 | 亚洲最大视频网站 | av福利网址 | 久久人人人 | 91免费视频国产 | 韩国久久久 | 久久精品影视 | 国产精品每日更新 | 在线不欧美 | 91视频91| 成年人免费观看视频网站 | 毛片毛片毛片毛片 | 久久综合成人 | 观看av在线 | 神马午夜国产 | 婷婷亚洲天堂 | 日韩久久久久久久久久 | 视频一区在线观看 | 欧美一级一区二区三区 |