UPDATE: The star-crossed story continues:
The House is expected to have to vote again Wednesday on Republicans’ sweeping tax legislation after several provisions were ruled out of order in the Senate.
However, it is not likely to stop the momentum for long, with the legislation still on track to be delivered to President Donald Trump this week. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill Tuesday night after striking the provisions, which relate to expanding tax-advantaged college savings accounts and taxing college endowments.
The stumble is an embarrassment for Republicans, who just hours before were celebrating on the House floor and getting kudos from Trump for passing the landmark bill and sending it to the Senate. It also plays into the hands of Democrats who have been saying the speed with which Republicans are pushing the plan through is a recipe for chaos.
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Just in time for Christmas, as the Denver Post’s Mark Matthews reports:
“While distractors will spell every myth and scare tactic under the sun, at the end of the day, this bill will help working and middle-class families by doubling both the child tax credit and the standard deduction,” said [Rep. Mike] Coffman in a statement prior to the vote.
“This pro-growth and pro-family bill will put more money into the pockets of hard-working Coloradans,” he added.
The tax measure, which has flown through both houses of Congress in recent weeks, has attracted widespread opposition for the tax breaks it provides to corporations and the wealthy, as well as the $1 trillion it’s expected to add to the federal deficit.
No taking it back now–apparently none of the changes to the bill, including those that undid key defenses Rep. Mike Coffman himself had offered for voting yes, were enough to persuade Coffman to stand in the way of paying back the donors. With this vote the U.S. House in 2017 can finally lay claim to something resembling an accomplishment. So there’s that.
Now the voters will judge Coffman’s actions, and based on the polling that doesn’t look promising.
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Kiss that House majority goodbye.
Mike Coffman, we're coming for you in 2018.
Vulgarity means you're losing…..
Quick, Moddy…..Grab that box of Kleenexes. Your tax cuts are coming!
I guess there will be more vulgarity from Republican circles next fall.
Btw, speaking of losing, have you heard that a recount in Virginia looks like it caused Republicans to lose a 16th seat in the House of Delegates there? And with it, they lose their majority in that chamber? Republican leaders have conceded the seat.
How sweet it is. Here's to hundreds more state leg seats in November!
I saw that. One vote
It wasn't Danica Roem's seat, was it?
Now who's the snowflake?
E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post sums it up this way:
On second thought if they're giving the finger to the liberals who have lied about this bill from the beginning, great! In two years the people will see the proof in their paychecks and your lies will be over.
And in 10 years, they will be able to count the money they save in negative numbers. But, hey deficits stopped mattering on 1/20/17. Right nutlid? Also, what's with them having to go back to revote because it violated Senate rules? If it's such a great bill, why do they have to re-do because of their amateur mistakes?
So the Christian Sharia law provision (ie. Personhood language) got yanked as well as the punitive tax on librul colleges.
Thank God for small favors — the right wing jihadists will have to find another bill to piss on
So the zygotes and embryos – remember, we cannot use the word "fetus" – will not be able to have college savings accounts?
Don't know if that got pulled; someone snuck in a further expansion of the 529 program to cover homeschooling, and altering the scope that much was a step too far to fit in as a tax provision.
. That, at least, makes me happy, Davie.
You should talk to some Kansans and see how swell things are over in red meat land.
Maybe he could move there.
CEO’s and Corporate Boards are required BY LAW to pass maximum profits to shareholders and will most likely buy back stock before hiring new workers, investing in the business, or repatriating any of those profits.
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/12/19/economy/corporate-tax-cuts-could-boost-shareholders-balance-sheets
That’s their “fiduciary duty” and they’ll be fired or sued if they don’t.
Moldy, unless you are a multimillionaire (yeah, right), read 'em and weep:
Whatever happened to having to vote on the committee bill without any changes or lose reconciliation status?
Whatever happened to a process deliberative enough that the text could have been cleared first? (Whatever happened to conference committees where both sides had representation?)
Republicans will eventually have House and Senate vote on a bill that conforms to Senate's Byrd rules — probably completed tomorrow or Thursday at the latest. As to what happened to the process… it got hijacked because they have majorities and enough carrots, sticks and promises of fairy dust to keep their majorities solid enough to win.
Where's Waldo?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/politics/tax-bill-vote-congress.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
Look at this photo of the Senate GOP leadership. There are a woman, a man behind her who is obviously not Cory Gardner, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, John Thune, the head of a man (most likely Orrin Hatch), Yertle, John Barrasso, Dean Heller, Cornyn, Roy Blunt, the head of another man who is probably not Gardner, and Lisa Murkowski.
Where is the chair of the RNSC? Did he not want to be photographed with the bridge crew of the Titanic? Not everything Gardner does is evil.