Source: Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) admitted Wednesday that his background check amendment did not have the votes for passage, and said in a television appearance that the National Rifle Association was lying about his bill. “We will not get the votes today,” Manchin told NBC News. That was a big admission [...]
Source: Stephanie Condon / CBS News Citing the minimal support for legislation that would ban assault weapons, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said today that he would leave the proposal out of the gun violence bill he’ll bring to the Senate floor. Instead, the assault weapons ban will be offered as an amendment to [...]
Source: Domenico Montanaro / NBC News Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R), upset with Harry Reid saying Hurricane Katrina was “nothing in comparison” to Hurricane Sandy and the devastation caused to the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area, lashed out on the social network calling the Senate majority leader an “idiot.” “Sadly, Harry Reid has again revealed himself to be an idiot, this time gravely [...]
Source: Suzy Khimm / The Washington Post Perhaps the best sign Monday that a “fiscal cliff” deal is impending is that Democrats have shifted to talking about other changes that are part a big grand bargain — both small-ball provisions and longer-term shifts that go beyond the Bush tax cuts and entitlement cuts that have so far [...]
From the press pool, here’s what Romney said when asked about his tax returns: “I just have to say, given the challenges that America faces – 23 million people out of work, Iran about to become nuclear, one out of six Americans in poverty – the fascination with taxes I’ve paid I find to be [...]
Source: Sam Stein / The Huffington Post Mitt Romney said on Thursday that he has paid at least a 13 percent tax rate every year for the past 10 years, directly rebuking an allegation by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that he paid effectively nothing in income taxes during that time period. The presumptive Republican nominee was taking [...]
Source: Dana Bash, Dana Davidsen and Ashley Killough / CNN Mitt Romney on Thursday pushed back against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s allegations that the presumptive GOP nominee has not been paying his taxes. “It’s time for Harry to put up or shut up,” Romney said on Sean Hannity’s radio show. In a Huffington Post interview published [...]
Source: Rachel Weiner / The Huffington Post Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has doubled (actually tripled) down on his claim that Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for 10 years. In both a Senate floor speech and in conversation with Nevada reporters, Reid said he had it on good authority that the former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate [...]
Source: Sam Stein and Ryan Grim / Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years. Saying he had “no problem with [...]
Source: Yahoo News WASHINGTON — Democrats have blocked a Senate vote onPresident Barack Obama’s proposal to extend tax cuts for one year for everyone but the highest-earning Americans. The move came after Republicans proposed votes on two amendments: One on Obama’s plan, and a second on a GOP alternative that would include top earners in the tax reductions. Democrats blocked both. The Senate was [...]
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