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December 15th, 2011
House passes payroll tax break extension
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-Nev.) said that the Republican proposal to extend the payroll tax cut for another year was 'dead before it got to the Senate'. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images.
The House of Representatives passed Republican legislation to extend the payroll tax bill on Tuesday. However, within minutes of the votes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned that the bill was nothing more than “a pointless partisan exercise.” He also added that he thought the bill “was dead on arrival in the Senate. It was dead before it got to the Senate.” A Democrat bill proposing to offset the cost of the payroll tax break with a surtax on incomes exceeding $1 million was rejected on the same day.
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