The Washington Post is reporting that congressional leaders have announced that they reached an agreement on compromise legislation to extend payroll-tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday sidetracked rival plans to extend a Social Security payroll tax, in dueling votes that pave the way for negotiations on a compromise on a core component of ...

The fight over the payroll tax cut accomplished almost nothing in terms of real world policy changes, but has provided the president with a huge political victory heading into 2012. Not only did ...

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Nothing in Washington is easy, it seems. Not even cutting people’s taxes. A House vote to extend the payroll tax cut that President Obama said should be “a formality” next week is a formality no more, ...