Reid Threatens to Push a Democrats-Only Payroll Tax Cut Extension
by Trish Turner | February 02, 2012
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threatened to move his own payroll tax cut extension bill Thursday, as Democrats across the Capitol decried what they said was GOP obstruction, this as the deadline fast approaches for the tax break to expire.
A House-Senate conference met for the third time Thursday morning to try to hammer out a compromise on not only the payroll tax holiday, but also unemployment insurance benefits and a fix to keep Medicare doctors from seeing a cut to their federal reimbursement.
