House Speaker John Boehner was dealt a major defeat Thursday night. After spending most of the week trying to round up votes for his “Plan B” to extend tax cuts for virtually everyone, he pulled the measure without a vote and sent the House home for Christmas. The clock keeps ticking toward the end of the year, when automatic tax increases and spending cuts are set to hit.
Early Thursday, Boehner expressed confidence not only that his bill would pass but that the Democratic-controlled Senate would feel so much pressure, it would be forced to consider it, too.
“I am not convinced at all that when the bill passes the House today that it will die in the Senate,” Boehner said early Thursday.
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