{"id":7189,"date":"2010-09-24T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7189"},"modified":"2010-09-24T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:14:40","slug":"harry-reid-promises-an-active-lame-duck-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7189\/harry-reid-promises-an-active-lame-duck-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Promises an Active Lame Duck Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to reach a compromise on a tax cut package, <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/09\/23\/senate-democrats-divided-taxes-put-issue-until-after-election-day#ixzz10SR1bWrS?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet \" target=\"_blank\">Democrats decided to wait until after the 2010 midterm elections<\/a> to vote on how many Americans will get a tax increase before the Bush tax cuts expire this December.\u00a0 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, \u201cDemocrats believe we must permanently extend tax cuts for the middle-class before the end of the year<em>, and we will<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 (Emphasis mine.)<\/p>\n<p>So now there is at least one to-do item on the Democrats\u2019 lame duck session list.\u00a0 What are the odds a few more will be added before the calendar turns to January?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to reach a compromise on a tax cut package, Democrats decided to wait until after the 2010 midterm elections to vote on how many Americans will get a tax increase before the Bush tax cuts expire this December.\u00a0 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, \u201cDemocrats believe we must permanently extend tax cuts for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1646,84,77,1613],"class_list":["post-7189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bush-tax-cuts","tag-congress","tag-harry-reid","tag-lame-duck-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7190,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions\/7190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}