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本帖最后由 ctcld 于 2013-1-1 11:26 PM 编辑
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — After a day of wrangling, the House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to pass a bipartisan deal undoing the fiscal cliff of austerity measures, which began going into effect at the start of the year.
The final vote tally was 257 to 167. A majority of Republican House members opposed the bill, with a total of 151 Republicans and 16 Democrats voting against it.
The passage came after the Senate approved the measure by a large bipartisan majority of 89-8 in the wee hours Tuesday morning, as lawmakers scrambled to avert much broader tax hikes and heavy spending cuts.
The bill now heads to the White House, where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it into law.
The deal raises tax rates on household income above $450,000, extends unemployment benefits, and delays across-the-board spending cuts for two months, but it also lets a 2% payroll-tax cut lapse.
Tax rates will rise to 39.6% from 35% currently on individual incomes of more than $400,000 and on couples’ incomes over $450,000.
The deal also does nothing to address the U.S. borrowing limit, which was officially reached Monday, forcing the Treasury to take special measures to delay insolvency for the U.S. government. |
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