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 familys first $250,000 in income.
We should take it up, were 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]heres a hammerlock and we need to break it, and theres a real opportunity to do that
A floor vote is expected Thursday.
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