Budget proposals that exceed the capped rate need a 60 percent supermajority of votes to pass.
But why not, for the sake of the middle class, for the sake of economic stability, for the sake of dealing with a large portion of the fiscal cliff, pass the tax cut for 98 percent of the American people today?
The fact of the matter is that an estimated 20 percent of the cocaine that comes - from Colombia pass through the Caribbean, and a good portion of that stops in Puerto Rico.
And at least prior to that, even as we acknowledge that we will debate some of these issues beyond the election, we can take action immediately to pass the tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people that would go a significant distance down the road towards addressing the fiscal cliff.
Some 70 percent of the unmarried men cited above cannot pass this hurdle.
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The President has said now for months that at the very least the House ought to follow the Senate's action and pass tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.
The House should act to pass the tax cuts for the middle class -- 98 percent of American taxpayers -- and do what everyone in Washington agrees should be done, which is to extend those tax cuts, pass that law, the President will sign it, and it will create certainty for 98 percent of the American people.
Yes, I mean, one aspect of a way to deal with this at the very least would be to pass the tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.
But we need to address some of these challenges that confront us right away, and one way to do that is to pass those tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.
That resolution failed to pass, although it received almost 20 percent of the voting shares.
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Never before have you seen a bill pass through the House and then a bill pass through the Senate and where 90 percent of those bills -- those two bills overlap.
If we do pass this bill, for 97, 98 percent of Americans, your taxes will stay low.
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And that's what will happen if the House does not follow the Senate's lead and pass the extension of tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.
That threat is now off the table, though an amendment asking all Senators to donate 20 percent of their own salaries to a charity of their choice did pass by a voice vote.
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To avoid that, the House needs to pass the bill that the Senate already passed so that 98 percent of the American people will not have their taxes go up.
For the measure to pass, the "yes" votes must total at least 60 percent of those voting on this question or a majority of those voting in the overall election.
And I think one economist on that said that, were those not to pass, you could shave off 1.7 or 1.8 percent of GDP.
McCain's amendment failed to pass Tuesday, which means the spending bill made up of about 1 percent earmarks will now go to a vote.
Griffin's highlights were simply spectacular his signature moment coming on a long, cross-field touchdown pass with 8 seconds left to beat Oklahoma and he put up dizzying numbers, completing 72 percent of his passes for 3, 998 yards with 36 touchdown passes and a nation-leading 192.3 efficiency rating.
One step that the House of Representatives could take tomorrow, if they saw fit to return to Washington to do a little work, would be to pass the bill the President proposed and the Senate passed, which would make sure that 98 percent of the American people did not see their taxes go up on January 1st.
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