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Swede

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Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:48 PM Jul 2012

House Dems To Force Vote On Middle-Income Bush Tax Cuts

House Democrats will put Republicans on record this week voting down an extension of the middle-income Bush tax cuts unless the tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest Americans are also extended.

On Monday, Ways and Means Committee ranking member Sander Levin (D-MI) will introduce legislation mirroring a bill Senate Democrats passed last week to extend the Bush tax cuts up to a family’s first $250,000 in income.

“We should take it up, we’re going introduce it, it should pass,” Levin told reporters on a conference call. “This issue of holding hostage middle class tax cuts for those with income over a million essentially is the first order of business in my judgment that has to be addressed and resolved. … [T]here’s a hammerlock and we need to break it, and there’s a real opportunity to do that …”

A floor vote is expected Thursday.

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