Gop Ready To Push Business Tax Cut Through House

Alan Fram, Associated Press, Boston Globe: Politics
Wed, 04/18/2012 - 11:41pm

Republicans are ready to push a tax cut for nearly all the nation's employers through the House, ignoring a veto threat from President Barack Obama in order to make an election-year statement about their priorities.

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