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A week and a half ago. in fact, all eight of the people who speaker boehner appointed to be his so-called negotiators were against any payroll tax extension for the middle class two weeks ago, so what we said is ratify the two-month deal first and then the senate leadership, i m amongst them, will get on a plane and negotiate a an extension for the year, but we re not going to fall for this idea that is endemic in washington. when you want to kill something and you don t want your fingerprints on it, you say send it to a committee. speaker boehner has time and time again moved the goalposts back back. said get rid of the millionaire s tax and maybe he ll pass it. he didn t. he said lower the percentage from 3 to 2, and he wanted the pipeline, swallowed out and put it in there and you can t negotiate with that. negotiating with speaker boehner is like nailing jell-o to the wall. we need him to pass this two-month deal which would give us some degree of assurance that both he and his c ....
Who were against any deal at all a week and a half ago. in fact, all eight of the people who speaker boehner appointed to be his so-called negotiators were against any payroll tax extension for the middle class two weeks ago, so what we said is ratify the two-month deal first and then the senate leadership, i m amongst them, will get on a plane and negotiate a an extension for the year, but we re not going to fall for this idea that is endemic in washington. when you want to kill something and you don t want your fingerprints on it, you say send it to a committee. speaker boehner has time and time again moved the goalposts back back. said get rid of the millionaire s tax and maybe he ll pass it. he didn t. he said lower the percentage from 3 to 2, and he wanted the pipeline, swallowed out and put it in there and you can t ....
Deal if they won t ratify a two-month deal. these are the very same people who were against any deal at all a week and a half ago. in fact, all eight of the people who speaker boehner appointed to be his so-called negotiators were against any payroll tax extension for the middle class two weeks ago, so what we said is ratify the two-month deal first and then the senate leadership, i m amongst them, will get on a plane and negotiate a an extension for the year, but we re not going to fall for this idea that is endemic in washington. when you want to kill something and you don t want your fingerprints on it, you say send it to a committee. speaker boehner has time and time again moved the goal posts back. said get rid of the millionaire s tax and maybe he ll pass it. he didn t. he said lower the percentage from 3.to 2 and he wanted the ....
Conference committee that speaker boehner appointed, five have issued statements against any pay roll tax cut. this is a ludicrous sham. five have already made up their minds on the issue. and there is no one else at the table. it s a total sham. the house republicans have opposed a pay roll tax cut extension all year. they have had all year to bring the bill up. try to make sure we can extend it and not allow this 11th hour down to the wire nail biter to occur for the 160 million working families that are going to have a thousand dollars come out of their paycheck if we don t take up this bill. we need to do what our leader nancy pelosi and the democratic caucus did when she sent the letter to speaker boehner urging him to call the house back into session so that we can take up the senate bill which passed 89-10. senator dean heller from nevada has said the house republicans are doing the wrong thing. senator snow has said the same ....
Is doing and it will just end up killing the bill. have a simple up or down vote on a bill that passed 89-10 with a majority of republicans for it. if it s good enough from mitch mcconnell and john kyle and marco rubio and tom col berg, it should be good enough for house republicans. explain how they kill it. they don t necessarily always kill the bills. you need good faith. we don t believe speaker boehner has good faith left. we started out with the bill at 3.2% and went down to 2%. we took out the employer tax cut. they didn t want that. we then took out the millionaire s tax cut and said that was no good. they didn t want that. we even said we would accept the pipeline and they didn t want that. here s the ultimate. a few days ago, speaker boehner ....