Boehner announces deal with Reid on end to payroll tax impasse, NBC Politics on MSNBC, December 22, 2011, by Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer, excerpt quoted verbatim: OK, so this is a little back into the murky world of politics. We’ll try not to do that too often, but this deal, as described below, is actually one of the first successes the Obama administration has had over the House Republicans. Savor it while you can. ~ Paul Evans
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Tom Curry: Hearing anger from the people they represent, House Republicans found a way to make a deal and claim they accomplished something, too. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports.
House Speaker John Boehner announced Thursday that he had agreed with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on a two-month extension of a package including a payroll tax cut and an extension of unemployment benefits.
Boehner said in statement he and Reid “reached an agreement that will ensure taxes do not increase for working families on Jan. 1 while ensuring that a complex new reporting burden is not unintentionally imposed on small business job creators.”
He said the Senate “will join the House in immediately appointing conferees, with instructions to reach agreement in the weeks ahead on a full-year payroll tax extension. We will ask the House and Senate to approve this agreement by unanimous consent before Christmas.”
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See Also: BREAKING: Bah, humbug- Boehner CAVES, Daily Kos, December 22, 2011, by Earl from Ohio.
See Also: Boehner Takes Strong Hand With House GOP After Payroll Tax Meltdown, Talking Points Memo, December 22, 2011, by Brian Beutler.
See Also: Dems win one as GOP caves, The Washington Post (The Plum Line), December 22, 2011, by Greg Sargent.

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