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3秒自动关闭窗口Senate Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Sends Bill to the House for Final Passage - ABC News
The Senate passed the
this morning in a rare Saturday session of Congress.
The vote, 89-10, was called by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., at 9:45 a.m.
The vote breakdown: Two Democrats, Senator Joe Manchin, D-West Va. and Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., voted against the bill. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., also voted against the bill.
Seven Republicans who voted against the bill: Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C., Senator Ron Johnson, R- Wis., Senator Mark Kirk, R-Ill., Senator Jim Moran, R-Kan., Senator Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Senator Richard Shelby, R-Ala., Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky. did not vote.
The two-month plan, as negotiated last night by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., extends payroll tax cuts, extension of unemployment benefits and the Medicare “doc fix.”
Keystone Pipeline Provision
The bill includes the Keystone XL oil pipeline provision, requiring President Obama to make a decision on the pipeline within 60 days.
The bill is completely paid for by raising fees on new mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It should be noted that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s score came in just this morning – moments before voting – which did not allow Senators much time to review the final score.
The total cost of the bill works out to be $32.9 billion, and CBO estimates that it would reduce the deficit by about $3 billion.
“I know how difficult and hard it is for people to accept our way of doing business. But if you look back over the time we’ve been a country, it’s worked out pretty well,” Reid said on the floor. “People may be disturbed about some of the stuff here on the floor but it truly was a legislative — it was true legislation, because it was compromise.”
While the White House has indicated that they could accept the wording of the Keystone XL oil pipeline provision, the president earlier this month issued a veto threat if the provision was tied in any way to the payroll tax cut.
Today, Reid took responsibility for the inclusion of the provision, noting he’s against the provision but for the sake of getting to any deal it had to be done.
“I was responsible for putting it in this bill. That’s how legislation works. I would also say that we’re thankful that we’ve worked together to make sure that 160 million people have not a tax increase but a continued tax break,” Reid said.
Republicans are rallying behind the Keystone pipeline’s inclusion in the bill – as they drew a line in the sand this week saying they wouldn’t vote for any payroll extension without the provision.
“The main thing that Republicans were fighting for and got was the keystone XL pipeline provision,” McConnell touted on the Senate floor this morning, “All we’re doing is saying the president has 60 days to decide whether the project is in the national interest or not. Sixty days for the president to make a decision one way or the other and since most of us have not heard a good reason from the White House as to why they would block it, I’m very hopeful that the president in the course of this 60 days will do the right thing for the country and get this crucial project underway. The only thing standing between thousands of American workers and the good jobs this project will decide is a presidential decision.”
The bill will now be sent to the House of Representatives for final passage.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has not set a time yet for the vote.
It should be noted that members of the House were sent home to their districts, and Boehner has said he will give them at least 24 hours to get back to Washington for a vote.
If the House passes the bill it will then be sent to President Obama for his signature.
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Ensuring that women make their own choices about child-bearing and cutting waste are two important ways to ease the challenges of a more populous world.
A nurse takes care of a newborn baby in a hospital in Fuzhou in southeast China's Fujian Province on Monday. As the world's population hits 7 billion Oct. 31, the United Nations has urged the global community to invest in the health and education of children.
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As the global population surpasses 7 billion people sometime around the end of October, addressing the challenges associated with a still-growing world population will require a two-pronged response. The combined measures of empowering women to make their own decisions about childbearing and significantly reducing global consumption of energy and natural resources would move humanity toward, rather than further away from, environmentally sustainable societies that meet human needs.Roughly 4.5 billion people have been added to the world population in just the last 60 years, according to
estimates, putting increased strain on the world’s ecosystems and resources. Because humans interact with their surroundings far more intensely than any other species and use vast amounts of carbon, nitrogen, water, and other resources, we are on track not only to change the global climate and deplete essential energy and other natural resources, but to wipe out thousands of plant and animal species in the coming decades.
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(UNFPA) launched , a campaign to highlight positive actions by individuals and organizations addressing global development challenges. By sharing these innovations in an open forum, the campaign aims to foster communication and collaboration as the planet becomes more populated and increasingly interdependent.Addressing global population growth is not the same thing as "controlling population." The most direct and immediate way to lower birth rates is to make sure that as high a proportion as possible of pregnancies are intended, by assuring that women can make their own choices about whether and when to bear a child. Simultaneously, we need to rapidly transform our energy, water, and materials consumption through greater use of conservation, efficiency, and green technologies. We shouldn’t think of these as sequential efforts – dealing with consumption first, then waiting for population dynamics to turn around – but rather as simultaneous tasks on multiple fronts. recommends two main approaches to mitigate the impacts of a soaring global population:Empower women to make their own decisions about childbearing. More than two in five pregnancies worldwide are unintended by the women who experience them, and half or more of these pregnancies result in births that spur continued population growth. [Former journalist and
president Robert] Engelman has calculated that if all women had the capacity to decide for themselves when to become pregnant, average global childbearing would immediately fall below the “replacement fertility” value of slightly more than two children per woman. Population would then move onto a path leading to a peak followed by a gradual decline, possibly well before 2050. Women must be able to make their own decisions about childbearing free from fear of coercion or pressure from partners, family, and society. And they must have easy access to a range of safe, effective, and affordable contraceptive methods and the information and counseling needed to use them.Consume fewer resources and waste less food. Humans appropriate anywhere from 24 percent to nearly 40 percent of the photosynthetic output of the planet for food and other purposes, and more than half of the planet’s accessible renewable freshwater runoff. In addition to overuse of finite resources, humans waste large quantities of food every year. According to the , industrialized countries waste 222 million tons of food annually. If fewer resources and less food were wasted, the world would be able to feed more people and use fewer resources. With nearly 1 billon hungry people worldwide, wasting less food would also mean utilizing existing resources – not new ones – to feed them.o To purchase your own copy of "State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet," please click . And to watch the one minute book trailer, click .o
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