{"id":30003,"date":"2011-12-23T04:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_lawmakers_reach_payroll-tax_deal\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T04:02:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T04:02:36","slug":"wsj_lawmakers_reach_payroll-tax_deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30003","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Lawmakers Reach Payroll-Tax Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional leaders reached an agreement Thursday to temporarily extend a payroll-tax cut by two months and begin negotiations on a yearlong extension, aides said.<\/p>\n<p>he agreement could end a political stalemate over the payroll-tax cut, which lowered Social Security taxes for 160 million Americans in 2011. Under the tentative agreement, the House will vote again on a two-month extension and the Senate will prepare to negotiate for an extension that will run through 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Aides said House Speaker John Boehner (R, Ohio) has agreed to hold a new vote Friday on extending the tax cut, bowing to increasing pressure to end an impasse that threatened to leave workers with a tax increase next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204552304577114394185169820.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional leaders reached an agreement Thursday to temporarily extend a payroll-tax cut by two months and begin negotiations on a yearlong extension, aides said. he agreement could end a political stalemate over the payroll-tax cut, which lowered Social Security taxes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30003\">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":[39,40,670,582,149,104,617,597,675,616,593,151,667,618,673,587,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30003","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=30003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}