Top GOP aides privately made clear that Republican senators would consider voting for the bill only if they were first allowed to vote on their tax cut extension proposal.
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The proposal includes an extension to the existing St George's Shopping Centre, a new leisure quarter, and a re-landscaped riverside.
Second of all, I saw that the Obama administration has put the payroll tax cut extension back on the table in its proposal.
It declined to issue another 30-day extension of its demolition order after the proposal to quickly sell the property to Mr. Belmonte was blocked.
He described the proposal as "a modest extension to the season to enable Rangers FC to represent the SPL and all of Scottish football in the Uefa Cup final".
The House also passed a 13-week extension on unemployment benefits and a nonbinding proposal that calls for the Pentagon to begin redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq within 30 days, with the goal of getting all U.S. troops out of combat operations by the end of 2009.
And clearly, unemployment insurance is very much an element of the same kind of proposal the payroll tax cut extension and expansion is, and that it goes directly to assisting Americans make ends meet, and it has extremely positive impacts on the economy, on economic growth and job creation.
We certainly expect the Senate to put forward a proposal on the payroll tax cut and the extension of UI that reflects those principles.
Schulze is expected to seek a 30-day extension to a mid-December date for making a final proposal.
Iraq has already rejected an extension of the current oil-for-food program and the new British proposal that would loosen restrictions on trade with Iraq, except for a list of restricted items.
That proposal was signed into law on a bipartisan basis as part of the February extension of the payroll tax cut, and is being implemented today through guidance released by the Labor Department.
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