House Begins Healthcare Reconciliation Endgame Today

The Senate approved a $140 billion package of tax breaks, fiscal relief for states and benefits for laid-off workers last week, coupled with a grab bag of items such as farm disaster aid, higher Medicare payments to physicians and reauthorization of a law governing satellite television signals. Even...

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Published inCongress Daily/A.M. (Online)
Main Authors Edney, Anna, Sanchez, Humberto, George E Condon Jr, Peter Cohn, Megan Scully, Darren Goode, Bill Swindell, Chris Strohm, Erin McPike, Hatch, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington National Journal Group, LLC 15.03.2010
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Bonds
Congressional committees
Government spending
Health care policy
Investments
Meetings
National security
Network security
Politics
Satellite television
Small business
Student loans
Tax cuts
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Summary:The Senate approved a $140 billion package of tax breaks, fiscal relief for states and benefits for laid-off workers last week, coupled with a grab bag of items such as farm disaster aid, higher Medicare payments to physicians and reauthorization of a law governing satellite television signals. Even the smallish bill from acting Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin, which contains provisions popular on both sides of the aisle, such as elimination of capital gains tax on small-business stock sales, could run into flak given indications it might rely on curbing tax breaks for multinational companies to pay for it.
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ISSN:2158-3862
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