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Casey. bob casey is the chairman of the joint economic committee. this is his bill, the payroll tax holiday extension is bob casey s legislation. i have talked to each of them. they re going to work expeditiously to come up with a long-term arrangement on the payroll tax, on unemployment of course and on the doc fix. i have great confidence in them. i also want to say that most everything we do around here is based on trust. that is how we get things done. i want everyone to understand how much i appreciate mitch mcconnell sticking by the arrangement, the agreement we made. i have told him that personally. i say that to all of you. when we come back next month we have a lot of important things to do. i ve already talked about the payroll tax package. we have to do that. we can pay for it in many ....
Mitch mcconnell sticking by the arrange. the agreement we made. i told him that personally. i say that to all of you. when we come back next month, we have a lot of important things to do. i ve already talked about the payroll tax package. we have to do that. we can pay for it in many different ways. we have to be somewhat invent e inventive, and during the past few days i ve had many calls from my caucus members about ideas they have that would protect the people that would need the extra few bucks each month, but also save money in the long run. unemployment, we have to figure out a way to extend that. this is a first time that we have paid for unemployment tax extension, which i did not favor. but significant number of my own caucus did, so it was something we had to do and we ll continue to fight for the long-term unemployed. i would hope that we can do something to do something final ....
kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expect that things are moving towards a passage on the senate side and then, of course, all eyes turn to the house where the house expected to follow up with a vote and at the top of the next hour and, according to a house republican leadership aide, leaders do expect that this bill will go through, which means that both the house and senate both chambers of congress will have passed this two-month exteng, but, again, we caution with this procedure it only requires one member to stand up in th ....
Use the talking point that keep that fight, the same fight that s been going on right now. you can t pass payroll tax. you re not giving the middle class and lower income people tax breaks. they can keep on using that. so right now, what time is it? they are winning it at this very minute. but at some point, does it look like he s dodging? he didn t even address the keystone pipeline. didn t take any questions. it looks like he is dodging the issue and trying not to address it. let s talk about keystone because the president said, if any payroll tax package comes across my desk and has keystone in it, i am not passing it. now, it looks like he has a package that has keystone in it. some folks including sam stein said it was bad for republicans who want the keystone pipeline to go forward because the state department made the issue of the permit. speeding up the timeline is cutting themselves off at the knees, but the optics of the ....