{"id":1521,"date":"2012-03-29T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2012-03-29T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:23:33","slug":"senate-republicans-vote-down-measure-to-end-big-oil-tax-breaks-cnn-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/senate-republicans-vote-down-measure-to-end-big-oil-tax-breaks-cnn-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans vote down measure to end ‘big oil’ tax breaks – CNN.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic measure championed by President Barack Obama to end tax breaks for the major oil companies.<\/p>\n

The procedural vote of 51-47, which failed to reach the needed threshold of 60 in favor, killed the measure, which was given little chance of eventually winning approval in the Republican-controlled House. Four Democrats opposed the bill while one Republican supported it.<\/p>\n

Obama and Democrats had pushed it in an attempt to gain political advantage as rising gas prices continue to hurt and anger American voters in an election year.<\/p>\n

In remarks shortly before the Senate voted, Obama said the nation will be watching to see where Congress stands on the issue.<\/p>\n

“With record profits and rising production, I’m not worried about the big oil companies,” Obama said in the White House Rose Garden. “… I think it’s time they got by without more help from taxpayers, who are having a tough enough time paying their bills and filling up their tanks.”<\/p>\n

After the vote, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney labeled the result “unfortunate.”<\/p>\n

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