Obama Signs Payroll Tax Cut Extension
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed the payroll tax cut extension into law Wednesday, notching an election-year victory and rare bipartisan ag...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed the payroll tax cut extension into law Wednesday, notching an election-year victory and rare bipartisan ag...
AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- The $143 billion payroll tax cut won by President Barack Obama may be the last significant measure he receives from a deeply divided Con...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Harkin slammed his own president and party for hatching the payroll tax cut deal that is expected to pass Congress Friday, sayi...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR and LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 02.21.2012
WASHINGTON -- GOP aides say House Republican leaders have agreed to a two-month extension of Social Security payroll tax cuts and federal unemployment...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama made phone calls to leaders on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning in an effort to encourage them to pass a two-month ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.13.2011
WASHINGTON -- The White House issued an unequivocal threat to veto the House Republican bill to extend the payroll tax cut Tuesday, condemning it as a...
AP | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is emphasizing that he would forgo his Hawaiian vacation and stay in Washington for "as long as it takes" Co...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats offered their second plan to extend the payroll tax cut Monday, this time proposing a smaller tax on the wealthy to pay...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 02.02.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama wants voters to get involved in the debate over extending the reduced payroll tax and he's asking them to te...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 11.23.2011
Maine Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have come out in favor of extending unemployment benefits and the Social Security payroll tax c...
AP | By MARK S. SMITH | Posted 04.23.2012