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Families more than $71 billion over the next decade, don. >> but you mentioned some sort of relief for the middle class. why is it short term? >> well because the tax rates that the middle class, that they do get, they don't last. in the senate version, the vast majority of individual tax cuts expire after 2025, this includes the expanded child tax credit, the bigger standard deduction as well. and then cuts in individual rates. but the corporate tax cut and most of the other goodies for businesses, those are actually permanent. so it's a big reason why the joint committee on taxation found th...

Sherrod brown, senator brown, concerned about, that this is a corporate tax cut that is being sold as a middle class tax cut and it is not that in the end. that's what you will see the fight be as we go forward as the senate marks up its bill and advances its bill, what the senate has and house have. there are a lot of differences in these. one thing not different they both have 20% corporate tax rate. >> so well, there's that. >> it's permanent. >> that is permanent. look closer at the house bill yesterday, of course after the vote yesterday, we're continuing to dig deep near it. >> sure. >> ...

Today. the chances of her itemizing with a $24,000 standard deduction for her and her husband are probably very, very low. i think folks have really misunderstood the value of that. that is a key tool, a key part of how we are lowering taxes on so many ordinary americans like her. >> martha: i have to ask you one more question, where does the white house stand -- do you like the senate bill that it was a hospital better, and is the white house in favor of removing the obamacare individual mandate for this bill? >> i'm not dodging the question, and being consistent with what we said from the be...

Are senior citizens. i don't have that same report in front of me. but keep in mind, what you've just done is assumed away a big piece of the tax code. don't feel bad. a lot of people do that. they focus on a piece of the bill they don't like. >> but it effects millions of people. i understand there's winners and losers. >> true but what you're ignoring is the fact we're doubling the standard deduction. you have to itemize in order to take those deductions. you've got to report. i don't. but my guess is what it doesn't show is how many people would choose not to itemize that particular expense...

Middle-class earners. >> this plan is for the middle class families in this country who deserve a break. it is for the families who are out there living paycheck to paycheck who just keep getting squeezed. about half the country today is living paycheck to paycheck and a lot more people are about a paycheck away from living paycheck to paycheck in this country, and this is going to help give people relief. >> sandra: lets go straight to a chief congressional correspondent as promised, mike emanuel life on capitol hill for us. >> good afternoon to you. leaders say home making $59,000, the media...