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House sends bill on child nutrition and free lunch to president Supply of places to fish dwindling
Two GOP senators on deficit commission behind proposals
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l In some editions of the Dec. 2 Local Living section, aGoingOut
Guide listing omitted the day of the holiday singalong at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center. It is Sunday, Dec. 5, at 4 p.m.
l A Nov. 30 Style article about Leslie Nielsen misstated the city
in which the actor died. Nielsen died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., not Los Angeles.
l A Nov. 23 A-section article about new health-care rules is-
sued by the Obama administra- tion misstated the number of
Americans with private insur- ance. About 180 million Ameri- cans have such coverage and will be affected by the new rules; the article omitted the word “mil- lion.”
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One article about the 2008 at- tacks inMumbai incorrectly said that David Coleman Headley pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges in that case and in connection with a plot against Denmark. Headley pleaded guilty in those cases.
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Jeff Conrad, left, andMattKearns try to free a car trapped on a Buffalo street
Thursday.More than two feet of snow fell, and hundreds of people became stranded—some for 15 hours—on theNewYork State Thruway after a tractor-trailer jackknifed and caused a back-up.
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They are also pressingDemocrats to approve ameasure to keep the government funded through Sep- tember, amove aimed at avoiding a fightwith theWhiteHouse over spending that could provoke a government shutdown. In return, Obama is seeking
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Republican support for as much as$150billioninnewspendingon the economy, including an addi- tional 13 months of emergency jobless benefits and another year of his signature “Making Work Pay” tax cut forworking families. The latest round of jobless ben-
efits expired Tuesday night, leav- ing 2 million people facing the holidayswithout income support. With the unemployment rate stuck at 9.6 percent, failure to renewthe benefits could dowide- spread harm to jobless families and, according to a White House economic report released Thurs- day, destroy 600,000 jobs over the next year as those families curb spending. Obamamade that point Thurs-
day in remarks to a gathering of newly elected governors at Blair House. “Ourhopeandexpectation is that unemployment insurance — something that traditionally has had bipartisan support — is something that once againwill be dealt with as part of a broader package,” he said. Republicans have so far resist-
ed, arguing that if jobless benefits are extended, the cost should be covered by cutting spending else- where. The Making Work Pay tax cut,
meanwhile, is one of dozens of tax measures that will expire Dec. 31 unlessCongressacts.Publicatten- tion has focused on the Bush tax
breaks, the largest block of provi- sions. But a variety of other tax breaks that benefit businesses, college students and poor work- ing families also are set to expire orneed to be renewed. If successful, the back-channel
negotiationswould add hundreds of billions ofdollars to futuredefi- cits, even as a bipartisan commis- sionappointedbyObamais trying to build support for a plan to balance the budget. In a briefing for reporters, a senior administra- tion official noted the contradic- tion but said the provisions being considered would “enhance
Timothy F. Geithner and White House budget chief JacobLew. The shadow talks have stirred
considerable illwillamongDemo- crats,whocomplainprivately that theWhiteHouse is capitulating to Republicans without extracting anything substantial in return. Some lawmakers are particularly irritatedthatObama’s toppriority is winning Senate ratification of theNewSTARTnucleararmspact with Russia, which could be a significant win for the White House but one of little conse- quence to rank-and-file lawmak- ers.
“Right now we don’t have anything to work through, because it’s all conjecture.” —Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.)
growth” at a criticalmoment. The two sides are also discuss-
ing an immediate vote to raise the legal limitongovernmentborrow- ing—monthsbeforeanincreaseis needed. Themovewould defuse a potentially explosivedebate inthe spring,whenanewtide of conser- vativelawmakers is threateningto blockanincrease inthedebt limit, risking a government default. The negotiations, which in-
volve Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), predate a bi- partisan meeting Tuesday at the White House over the year-end legislative agenda, according to congressional
sources.Conducted by phone and through other back channels, they are running paral- lel tomore public bargaining ses- sions led by Treasury Secretary
While negotiators reported
steady, if slow, progress behind the scenes, the public rhetoric re- mained heated. The House on Thursday easily approved a mea- sure that would extend only the Bush-era cuts that affect family income under $250,000 a year. ThreeRepublicans broke ranks
to vote for the measure, which passed 234 to 188. Twenty Demo- crats voted against it. “This is thewrong policy at the
wrongtime,” saidRep.DaveCamp (R-Mich.), the senior GOP mem- ber of theWays and Means Com- mittee. “Democrats are wasting timewhile Americans are looking forwork.” McConnell also called the vote
meaningless in light of talks with the White House focused on ex- tending cuts for taxpayers at all income levels. “The only thing
we’re discussing now is just how long that extension will be,” he said. Senate Democrats were scram-
bling late Thursday to hold their own votes before any White House-led compromise is un- veiled. A move to take up the HousebillFridaywasblockedby a Republican objection. So Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.)delayedthevoteuntilSatur- day, when the Senate plans to consider two amendments, one a slightly different version of the middle-class extension and the other a proposal to preserve the cuts on income of as much as $1 million a year. Neither is ex- pected to pass. Republicans have demanded
that Senate Democrats set aside all other priorities to focus on the tax cuts, the budget and New START. But Reid told reporters that his to-do list remains jam- packed with legislation that has been languishing for months in the Senate queue, including bills to overhaul immigration laws, al- low gays to serve openly in the military, and provide collective bargaining for firefighters. The House plans to vote in the
coming days on one of Reid’s top priorities,ameasureknownas the DREAM Act that would loosen immigration restrictions for stu- dents who reside in the country illegally. That would help Reid overcome procedural hurdles to bringing it up inthe Senate. “I’m confident and hopeful we
can work our way through all these things,” Reid said. But he added: “Right now we don’t have anything to work through, be- cause it’s all conjecture.”
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