{"id":29853,"date":"2011-12-14T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbs_ap_payroll_tax_cut_row_threatens_government_shutdown\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:45:42","slug":"cbs_ap_payroll_tax_cut_row_threatens_government_shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29853","title":{"rendered":"(CBS\/AP) Payroll tax cut row threatens government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican payroll tax cut bill that sailed through the House despite a White House veto threat is dead on arrival in the Senate, and it will soon be time for talks on a final package, the Senate&#8217;s top Democrat says&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Reid says he will schedule a vote shortly on the House-passed bill to underscore its irrelevance \u201d\u201d a vote that should start the clock ticking on what stands as the year&#8217;s final, high-stakes partisan faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was dead before it got to the Senate,&#8221; Reid said of the House legislation. &#8220;The Senate will not pass it. The sooner we demonstrate that, the sooner we can begin serious discussions on how to keep taxes from going up on middle-class Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-250_162-57342767\/payroll-tax-cut-row-threatens-govt-shutdown\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican payroll tax cut bill that sailed through the House despite a White House veto threat is dead on arrival in the Senate, and it will soon be time for talks on a final package, the Senate&#8217;s top Democrat<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29853\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,149,617,597,616,151,618,587,596,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}