{"id":1345,"date":"2012-02-16T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2012-02-16T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:19:43","slug":"congress-reaches-final-payroll-tax-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/congress-reaches-final-payroll-tax-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress reaches final payroll tax deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional negotiators resolved all differences on an agreement to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while avoiding a fee cut for Medicare doctors for the rest of the year, leaving only technical issues to sort out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good for the country. It&#8217;s very good for the country,&#8221; Montana&#8217;s Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said early Thursday in announcing the deal.<\/p>\n<p>But resolving those technical issues and getting the necessary signatures required to finalize the conference report was expected to take through at least Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re confident that this can be concluded &#8230; and we&#8217;re moving forward,&#8221; Republican Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, the other committee chariman, said.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada hailed the deal.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/02\/16\/politics\/payroll-tax-deal\/index.html?eref=rss_politics&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+Politics%29\">Congress reaches final payroll tax deal &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional negotiators resolved all differences on an agreement to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits while avoiding a fee cut for Medicare doctors for the rest of the year, leaving only technical issues to sort out. &#8220;It&#8217;s good for the country. It&#8217;s very good for the country,&#8221; Montana&#8217;s Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16,22],"tags":[695,44,693,26,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}