House Sets Vote Tomorrow on Tax Cuts as Talks Begin
Politics • December 2010 • Views: 276
House Democrats scheduled a vote tomorrow on their plan to extend middle-class tax cuts and let them expire for higher-income Americans as lawmakers and the Obama administration sought a bipartisan compromise.
Negotiators discussed “everything on the table,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told reporters after the first of two meetings in Washington today. The discussions were “civil” and “constructive,” he said. Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, described the talks as “congenial, potentially productive.”