{"id":12935,"date":"2012-02-20T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12935"},"modified":"2012-02-20T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:54:33","slug":"congress-sends-payroll-tax-cut-bill-to-pres-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12935","title":{"rendered":"Congress Sends Payroll Tax Cut Bill To Pres. Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Congress on Friday approved legislation renewing a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, backing the main items on<strong> President Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> jobs agenda in a rare burst of Washington bipartisanship.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate approved the $143 billion measure on a bipartisan 60-36 vote minutes after the House approved it by a sweeping 293-132 vote. <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> is expected to sign it shortly after returning from a West Coast fundraising swing.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, workers would continue to receive a 2 percentage point increase in their paychecks, and people out of work for more than six months would keep jobless benefits averaging about $300 a week, steps that <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> says will help support a fragile recovery from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>It would also head off a steep cut in reimbursements for physicians who treat Medicare patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Congress on Friday approved legislation renewing a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more, backing the main items on President Barack Obama&#8217;s jobs agenda in a rare burst of Washington bipartisanship. The Senate approved the $143 billion measure on a bipartisan 60-36 vote minutes after the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}