It might be a mini-deal, but still: members of Congress are expected to go back to work Thursday, and lawmakers seem to realize that their theatrics are wearing thin on the American public.
It turns out when its members agree to play straight and give up filibustering, the Senate can get even controversial legislation passed, as it demonstrated Wednesday by approving the Bush-era tax cuts for all but the highest earners.
President Barack Obama took no questions after his brief address about extending the Bush-era tax cuts to those making less than $250,000, calling on Congress to 'pass a bill extending the tax cuts to the middle class' and promising to sign such a bill immediately.
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On the same day President Obama proposed a tax reform plan, Mitt Romney is announcing details for his own tax plan in a speech in Arizona.
A New Hampshire voter asks Romney if the solution for middle class woes might be sacrifice from Romney and his fellow 1-percenters.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Boehner's holiday plans.
Cartoonist Ben Sargent on America's missing middle class.
Two polls, one of millionaires and one of everyone, have both found 68 percent support for a millionaires surtax.
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