Hoyer: There will be an up-or-down vote on middle-class tax cuts

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Thursday November 18, 2010 · 12:30 PM PST

2010/11/18 · 12:30

A senior Democratic aide tells Greg Sargent that Steny Hoyer says there will be a straight up-or-down vote on extending middle-income tax cuts without extending upper-income tax cuts.

Dems will vote on just middle class tax cuts, Hoyer says

Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House Dem leadership, told Democrats at a caucus meeting this morning that they would get to vote this year on just extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, a senior Dem aide tells me, signaling support for a confrontational move towards the GOP that liberals have been pushing.

Asked if Democrats would definitely get a chance to hold this vote, the senior aide responded: "Definitely."

Hoyer's declaration comes as Democrats have been debating the way forward on the Bush tax cuts, and another aide tells me that "more than half" of the Dem caucus supports this course of action.

Obviously, the vote alone does not guarantee that the days of Bush-era tax policy are numbered, but at the very minimum it gives Democrats more of the political leverage they will need to achieve a good outcome and it will force Republicans to either agree to a compromise that will end the Bush-era tax policy or accept responsibility for killing tax cuts.

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