I wonder how John Carney will vote on this?

Filed in National by on July 30, 2012
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Brian Beutler July 30, 2012, 2:56 PM 1667 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 family’s first $250,000 in income.

“We should take it up, we’re 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]here’s a hammerlock and we need to break it, and there’s a real opportunity to do that …”

A floor vote is expected Thursday.

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  1. puck says:
    July 30, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    Repubs will defeat it anyway so it’s a free Yes vote for Carney.

  2. WWB says:
    July 30, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    This has been the concern too often about Carney. I wrote him early on after he got to congress to ask why he voted to keep the alternate engine project for the new advanced fighter, despite most Dems voting against it. It took two emails before I got an answer, and the answer I got wasn’t even an answer.

  3. wtf says:
    July 30, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    yea so next year 50% can pay no federal income tax, this year it is 46% don’t, what freeloaders!!!

  4. jason330 says:
    July 31, 2012 at 8:21 am

    The only people moved by that argument are lower middle class teabags who identify with Republicans through racism.

  5. puck says:
    July 31, 2012 at 8:45 am

    There’s an interesting thing going on in the House with the farm bill. Traditionally the farm bill contains two main things: Farm subsidies, and funding for food stamps. And this year there is a new twist – drought relief.

    Teabaggers have tied the House into knots over this because they won’t vote for the bill unless it contains billions in cuts for food stamps. So basically the House can’t pass the farm bill. Not even in an election year.

    “The conservative outrage with the bill is such that Republicans alone are unlikely to be able to carry it,” said Andrew Moylan of the National Taxpayers Union. […]

    Leadership officials could be saved by liberal legislators, many of whom might vote for the one-year bill because it doesn’t contain the billions of dollars in food stamp cuts in the Senate- and House Agriculture Committee-passed bills.

    But aides said leading food-stamp supporters like Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) are leaning against the bill and instead want to see a longer-term bill in which farm subsidies are reformed and food stamps maintained at current levels.

    “I do think that there is always a concern that we’re here to carry the water for Republicans when they can’t get a bill passed,” Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) said.

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