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American jobs act to a vote in the senate after having rewritten the tax provisions in the bill that pay for it. the bill should now be called the american jobs and tax justice act because what harry reid has written into the bill is a more progressive and more fairly targeted tax proposal than what the white house had proposed to pay for the bill. where the president offered a small collection of tax proposals aimed at some corporations and individuals with incomes over $200,000. harry reid nar...

The senate after having rewritten the tax provisions in the bill that pay for it. the bill should now be called the american jobs and tax justice act because what harry reid has written into the bill is a more progressive and more fairly targeted tax proposal than what the white house had proposed to pay for the bill. where the president offered a small collection of tax proposals aimed at some corporations and individuals with incomes over $200,000. harry reid narrowed the focus to one tax prop...

Rewritten the tax provisions in the bill that pay for it. the bill should now be called the american jobs and tax justice act because what harry reid has written into the bill is a more progressive and more fairly targeted tax proposal than what the white house had proposed to pay for the bill. where the president offered a small collection of tax proposals aimed at some corporations and individuals with incomes over $200,000. harry reid narrowed the focus to one tax proposal for people with net...

progress. democratic senate leader harry reid and republican senate leader mitch mcconnell on the senate floor moments ago. look. >> today the speaker republican leader held a press conference to announce theyre in talks with the president and that a bargain to raise the debt ceiling is in the works and is close. in president, members of the senate, thats not true. i just spent two hours with the president, vice president, and leader pelosi, and its fair for me to say that the engageme...

has been recovered. federal investigators are hoping a $10,000 reward will lead them to the weapons or to whom ever may have taken them. the awol private accused of plotting an attack on soldiers stationed at ft. hood in texas is now being held without bond. naser jason abdo was in court yesterday. he was arrested after being tipped off by a gun store clerk. officials say they found bomb-making materials in abdos motel room. they also say abdo admitted he plans to set off bombs at a ...

word. >> the truth is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. this is just not going to happen. >> as makeshift memorials spring up across norway, police and the public are searching for answers to fridays deadly attacks. the lawyer and suspect, anders breivik, the lawyer said his client is in insane. the suspects father, who doesnt want to be identified, agrees. >> translator: no, ill never have more contact with him in my darkest momen...

Highly uncertain. it instructs the various committees of the senate and the house to come up with these spending cuts. we have no assurance that they will do that. we have no idea how theyll do that. then we asked the senate to vote on that. all of which suggests to me there are a number of ways in which this could fall apart. i give these guys all the credit in the world for really struggling and trying to make some progress on a tough issue. theres no assurance that it results in an outcome. i...

Over ten years. thats $66 billion more than the original plan. the new bill is expected to save $22 billion in the year 2012. cbo also reviewed senate majority leader harry reids proposal saying it would result in greater deficit reduction than boehners competing plan. the reid proposal would extend the debt ceiling for a longer period of time than boehners, which calls for a two-step process. something the white house has said it will not accept. an aide for the speaker responded to all this ne...

Over ten years. thats $66 billion more than the original plan. the new bill is expected to save $22 billion in the year 2012. cbo also reviewed senate majority leader harry reids proposal saying it would result in greater deficit reduction than boehners competing plan. the reid proposal would extend the debt ceiling for a longer period of time than boehners, which calls for a two-step process. something the white house has said it will not accept. an aide for the speaker responded to all this ne...

Progressives who are extremely upset that this president has begun to talk about major cuts in social security, cuts in medicare, and hundreds of billions of dollars of cuts in -- >> but the reid plan, the progressive voices in this country are being heard by the white house, and also by the senate. does this have a chance of passing? >> ed, yes and no. you are right, the big three are not in the reid proposal. but you know what is in the reid proposal? a commission made up of 12 people, 6 democ...