The new bill includes 1) an exemption from Social Security payroll taxes Liberals typically like more spending in their jobs proposals–some But it’s not the bill they’re happy about: it’s Reid’s spine in After Baucus’s health care negotiations with Grassley and a handful of Liberals typically like more spending in their jobs proposals–some But it’s not the bill they’re happy about: it’s Reid’s spine in After Baucus’s health care negotiations with Grassley and a handful of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took the bipartisan-negotiated jobs bill, unveiled by Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)–who, by the way, played a central role in health care negotiations last summer–and slashed it, the headlines say: he took several measures from that bill and produced them as a new proposal–the first step in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n for workers hired in 2010 who have been unemployed for at lest 60 days,
\n 2) allowing small businesses to write off more of their expenses under Section
\n 179<\/a>, 3) an extension of highway programs and a transfer of money to
\n the Highway Trust Fund, and 4) letting state and local governments
\n“borrow at lower cost to finance more infrastructure projects.”<\/p>\n
\nwanted the $787 billion stimulus bill (about a third of which was tax
\ncuts) to spend more, weighing in closer to $900 billion, as was being
\ndiscussed before moderate senators struck a deal to pare it down–but
\nthis time around liberals are praising Reid for scrapping so much of the
\n Baucus\/Grassley deal, The
\n Atlantic Wire’s Healther Horn reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nrejecting the Baucus\/Grassley deal.<\/p>\n
\nRepublicans lagged and lagged over the summer, taking much of the
\nmomentum out of health care reform and, in the end, yielding no GOP
\nvotes, it’s hard not to have soured on the idea of a Baucus\/Grassley
\nnegotiation leading the way forward for the Democratic\/Obama
\nagenda…even for liberals who think a larger pricetag would do more to
\nspur job growth.
The new bill includes 1) an exemption from Social Security payroll taxes
\n for workers hired in 2010 who have been unemployed for at lest 60 days,
\n 2) allowing small businesses to write off more of their expenses under Section
\n 179<\/a>, 3) an extension of highway programs and a transfer of money to
\n the Highway Trust Fund, and 4) letting state and local governments
\n“borrow at lower cost to finance more infrastructure projects.”<\/p>\n
\nwanted the $787 billion stimulus bill (about a third of which was tax
\ncuts) to spend more, weighing in closer to $900 billion, as was being
\ndiscussed before moderate senators struck a deal to pare it down–but
\nthis time around liberals are praising Reid for scrapping so much of the
\n Baucus\/Grassley deal, The
\n Atlantic Wire’s Healther Horn reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nrejecting the Baucus\/Grassley deal.<\/p>\n
\nRepublicans lagged and lagged over the summer, taking much of the
\nmomentum out of health care reform and, in the end, yielding no GOP
\nvotes, it’s hard not to have soured on the idea of a Baucus\/Grassley
\nnegotiation leading the way forward for the Democratic\/Obama
\nagenda…even for liberals who think a larger pricetag would do more to
\nspur job growth.
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