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ProgressiveEconomist

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Fri Feb 17, 2012, 12:55 PM Feb 2012

Final Vote: Payroll Tax Extension Passes House and Senate

Last edited Fri Feb 17, 2012, 01:36 PM - Edit history (2)

The CSPAN-2 screen crawl reports the Senate has approved the Payroll Tax Cut Extension bill by a vote of 60-36. an earlier House vote approved the bill 293-132.

Now it's on to the WH for the President's signature and a vicroty lap!

WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?

Earlier, the C-SPAN screen read,

"On Agreeing to the Conference Report

Yea
146 Republican
147 Democratic
293 Totals

The 132 Nays were split 91 Republican and 41 Democratic . Not Voting was in the single digits.

Now it's on to President Obama. He could schedule a gtsmf President's Day signing!

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ProgressiveEconomist

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Fri Feb 17, 2012, 01:12 PM
Feb 2012

olfficial rollcall vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll072.xml .

Speaking just before Sandor Levin's (D-MI) closing argument for the bill, Steny Hoyer (D-MD) gave the DC area's argument against the bill's pay-fors from federal employee benefits. He said that the bill quadrupled mandatory federal worker pension contributions, while not raising those benefits by even a penny. 41 Democrats in all voted "no", along with 91 Rs.

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