WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are ready to whip a year-end tax-cut compromise through the House as Congress prepares to finish 2015 in a flurry of accomplishment that belies the partisan collisions sure to dominate the coming election year.
Though House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was leading a Democratic charge against the tax measure, GOP leaders seemed certain to push it through the chamber Thursday. That would set the stage for House passage Friday of a companion bill providing $1.1 trillion to finance government in 2016, leaving only Senate action before the 2,200-page bundle is shipped to President Barack Obama for his promised signature.
HAMPTON, N.H. – Bernie Sanders brought his populist road show to coastal New Hampshire Tuesday, where the Democratic presidential candidate took aim at rival Hillary Clinton for her ties to Wall Street and at Republicans for their bully-boy approach to battling Islamic terrorism.
Sanders, a self-avowed social democrat who first won election to the U.S. Senate in 2007 as an independent in Vermont, highlighted the populist nature of his presidential campaign in remarks delivered to a packed Winnacunnet High School auditorium. Bursts of cheering followed nearly every statement he made.
