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The Republican leadership wants to minimize the time available for their members to get cold feet and for the opposition to truly mobilize against their massive (and massively unpopular) tax cuts bill. So they're jamming it through, hoping for a vote in the House as early as next Tuesday.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas said he thinks resolution of differences between the House and Senate tax bill could come as soon as Tuesday. […]
House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, who’s overseeing the House-Senate conference committee for tax negotiations, said the panel will likely come to a written agreement on final legislation by Friday.
“We are on track for this week,” Brady told reporters, referring to a so-called conference report.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told GOP members the goal is for the House to vote on the tax bill next Tuesday, Dec. 19, according to Representative Lamar Smith of Texas.
There's apparently still a lot that needs to be to be ironed out, including finding a way to fix the Senate's screw-up on the corporate alternative minimum tax, resolving differences on the estate tax, deciding between the House's four individual tax brackets and the Senate's seven, and keeping the bill under $1.5 trillion so that it can still go through under Senate rules. But one thing they are decided on:
Congressional leaders have already signaled how they plan to resolve some differences between the two bills. For example, the Senate bill would repeal the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, while the House bill would not. But House leaders have suggested they like that change to the health care law and support including it in the final bill.
Kicking 13 million people off of their health insurance plans is something every Republican can get behind.
Jam your senators' and representative's phone lines at (202) 224-3121. Tell them to vote "no" on the Republican tax bill.