{"id":135158,"date":"2017-12-19T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135158"},"modified":"2017-12-20T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:15:42","slug":"house-passes-tax-cut-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135158","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House to re-vote on tax cut measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118429\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/capitalbuilding2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Great titles can sell books. Bad ones can slow down tax bills in Congress \u2014 though just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican $1.5 trillion tax bill will apparently take a few extra hours and a second House vote for lawmakers to send it to President Donald Trump for his signature.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the Senate parliamentarian has decided three provisions violate the chamber&#8217;s rules. They&#8217;re all minor.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats say one problem is the bill&#8217;s title: &#8220;The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They say those words violate a rule barring provisions that have no impact on the budget or aren&#8217;t necessary for other sections that have a budget impact.<\/p>\n<p>The House passed the bill Tuesday. It will have to vote again, probably Wednesday, after the Senate drops the provisions and approves the legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON DC (AP) \u2014 The House has passed the most sweeping rewrite of the nation\u2019s tax laws in more than three decades. The bill now goes to the Senate for an expected vote Tuesday evening. The House approved the bill by a mostly party line vote of 227-203. The bill represents the first major legislative victory for President Donald Trump. The $1.5 trillion package would provide steep tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy and more modest cuts for middle- and low-income families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Great titles can sell books. Bad ones can slow down tax bills in Congress \u2014 though just a bit. The Republican $1.5 trillion tax bill will apparently take a few extra hours and a second House vote for lawmakers to send it to President Donald Trump for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135198,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135158\/revisions\/135198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}