Posts Tagged ‘Harry Reid’
House Republicans Oppose Two Months Payroll Taxcut Extension – Want Full Year
The Senate, in a rare bipartisan vote on Saturday, passed a two months extension to the payroll tax cut. The deal reached just one week before Christmas was welcomed by President Obama, although he was hoping for a one year extension. Senate Leaders had hoped that the bill would be taken up by the House of Representative on Monday. House Speaker John Boehner said on NBCs Meet the Press that he didn't think that a quick fix solution could be reached and that he wanted full one year extension. Boehner suggested that the bill would not be taken up by the House. The Senate bill included the payroll tax extension, unemployment benefit extension plus a requirement for the President to make a decision on the XL Keystone Pipeline within 60 days. The Bill passed the Senate by 89-10 [...]
Congress Reaches Deal on Payroll Tax Cut Extension – Includes XL Keystone Pipeline
Congressional leaders reached a deal late Friday on the payroll tax cut extension. The deal, which still requires approval by both the House of Representatives and Senate includes a provision that the President must approve the XL Keystone Pipeline or declare it is not in the national interest. President Obama delayed the decision earlier until after the 2012 election quoting that more environmental impact impact evaluations were needed. Two exhaustive studies have already been completed, which found very little impact on the environment. The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this week, which included the pipeline and President Obama had vowed to veto it if it included the pipeline. Majority Leader Harry Reid had said that the bill was dead on arrival in the [...]
Harry Reid Millionaire Job Creators Like Unicorns don’t Exist
Sorry Greg Gutfeld from Fox News Show Red Eye, Harry Reid says, Unicorns, like Job creating Millionaires, don't exist. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) compared millionaires who create jobs to unicorns Monday on the Senate floor. "Millionaire job creators are like unicorns," he said, according to The Hill. "They are impossible to find and don't exist." Reid said that most of the "fictitious millionaire job creators" are "hedge fund managers or wealthy lawyers that don't do much hiring." The Senate has twice rejected paying for the extension of the one-year payroll tax cut with a surtax on millionaires. Republicans have said that the millionaire surtax would hurt job creation. "Well, over half of the people who would be taxed under this plan are, in [...]
House of Representatives Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension 234 – 193
The House of Representatives passed the Payroll Tax Cut Extension by a vote of 234 to 193, ignoring President Obama's threat to veto the bill. Fourteen Republicans voted no, while ten Democrats voted yes. Earlier Tuesday, President Obama threatened to veto the bill due to objections over how House Republicans chose to pay for the $180 billion legislation. The Republican-sponsored legislation would extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million workers for another year. It would also extend long-term unemployment benefits -- though with reforms that Democrats have protested -- and prevent a cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Despite a mutual consensus in favor of a payroll tax cut extension, Republicans and Democrats have sparred for weeks over the appropriate way to pay for the [...]
The Grover Norquist tax myth
The Left must have someone to blame, while the right is all about personally responsibility. Seems Senator Kerry and Murray had absolutely nothing to do with the failure of the super-committee. It was ALL the Republicans fought as they are beholden to one greater then them all, that's right, a living room name, Grover. Who knew that Grover from Sesame Street was keeping 12 people from Congress from making a deal. What? Its not the Grover from Sesame Street? Who else is so well known that has the name, Grover? Norquist? Who is that? By Charles Krauthammer Democrats are unanimous in charging that the debt-reduction supercommittee collapsed because Republicans refused to raise taxes. Apparently, Republicans are in the thrall of one Grover Norquist, the anti-tax campaigner, whom [...]
President Obama Speech on the Economy and Housing – Las Vegas, Nevada – October 24, 2011
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery On the Economy and Housing Las Vegas, Nevada October 24, 2011 As Prepared for Delivery: Good afternoon. Without a doubt, the most urgent challenge we face right now is getting our economy to grow faster and create more jobs. I know it, and folks in Nevada sure know it. And I think most Americans also understand that our economic problems didn’t happen overnight, and they won’t be solved overnight. What people don’t understand, though, is why some elected officials in Washington don’t seem to share the same sense of urgency they feel in their own lives. Last week, for the second time this month, Republicans in the Senate blocked a jobs bill from moving forward – a bill that would’ve meant jobs [...]
Harry Reid on the XL Keystone Pipeline – Renewables Wiser
Playing to his left base and trying to influence the State Departments decision on the XL Keystone pipeline, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed blasted the XL Keystone Pipeline as carrying dirty oil and stated that it would be wiser to invest in renewable energy. “The proponents of this pipeline would be wiser to invest instead in job-creating clean energy projects, like renewable power, energy efficiency or advanced vehicles and fuels that would employ thousands of people in the United States rather than increasing our dependency on unsustainable supplies of dirty and polluting oil that could easily be exported.” This is the first time Harry Reid weighed into this project. This is the same Harry Reid that said that private sector jobs are doing just fine and that it was government [...]
Pelosi Left Out of Leaders Meeting on Super Committee
Congressional leaders met this week with two of the most important people in Washington: the co-chairmen of the Joint Committee for Deficit Reduction. There was only one problem: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi didn’t even know the meeting was taking place. With work on the all-important super committee finally kicking into high gear, panel co-chairmen Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in the leadership suite of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Kyl is also member of the deficit panel. Though sources close to the principals declined to comment on the nature of the discussions between the leaders, they all confirmed [...]
Wingless, Bloodsucking and Parasitic: Meet the Flea Party!
Op-Ed by Ann Coulter So far, the only major accomplishment of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters is that it has finally put an end to their previous initiative, "Occupy Our Mothers' Basements." Oddly enough for such a respectable-looking group -- a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who have been at every protest since the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, people 95 percent of whose hair is concentrated in their ponytails, Andrea Dworkin look-alikes and other average Democrats -- they can't even explain what they're protesting. The protesters either treat inquiries about their purpose as a trick question, or -- worse -- instantly rattle off a series of insane causes: "No. 1, abolish capitalism; No. [...]
Obama Jobs Bill Dies in Senate
President Obama’s jobs bill was defeated in the Senate on Tuesday. While the vote remained open, it failed to attract enough support to stay alive in the chamber. The vote may end the bill’s legislative life as a unified package while opening the door for efforts to pass pieces of it in coming months. Republican opposition had assured defeat of the jobs bill for some time but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has worked for weeks to try to unify Democrats in support of cloture on the package. Democrats hoped their relative unity would highlight GOP opposition to a measure that polls well. Read more - Obama Jobs Bill Dies in Senate - Dan Friedman - NationalJournal.com.
