President Obama praises the bipartisan vote in the Senate for the Tax Cut bill that he proposed. He said members of both parties are not happy with all of it, but it does give middle class taxpayers a tax cut. He has been talking with members of the house and hopes they will approve the bill too.
Democratic opposition to President Barack Obama’s plan to avert an across-the-board income-tax increase Jan. 1 crumbled in the Senate on Monday, as a large bipartisan majority backed the legislation.
The 83-15 procedural vote to advance the bill eases the way to final approval. It also marks a watershed for Mr. Obama, who unveiled the deal he had cut with Republican lawmakers only a week ago.
Thirty-seven Republicans joined 45 Democrats and one independent in backing the legislation, a bipartisan alliance that stood in contrast to the largely party-line votes for Mr. Obama’s health-care bill, economic stimulus and other pillars of his first two years in the White House.
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