House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) vowed on Thursday that
Republican leaders would have the votes to pass Speaker John Boehner’s
(R-Ohio) “Plan B” tax bill over Democratic and conservative opposition.
“We’re
going to have the votes to pass both the permanent tax relief bill as
well as the spending reduction act,” Cantor told reporters at a Capitol
press conference, where he announced the House would also vote a
separate package to replace automatic spending cuts due to take effect
Jan. 1.
GOP leaders added the spending package to the docket in a bid to win
Republican votes of members who complained that Boehner’s tax bill did
not address sequestration, the $109 billion in across-the-board cuts to
military and domestic spending that both parties have criticized.
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