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NO WOTC or Tax Extenders BIll in U.S. House Until After Elections

Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

We’ve been watching developments closely, and today we finally have something  concrete although not what we’ve been hoping.   While the possibility still remains for a Senate tax extenders bill before the recess, it appears that the House will not move until after the November elections.

Paul Suplizio, President of the WOTC Coalition shared the following correspondence with coalition members last night.  It is published here with permission.

Please note that Senate Bill S 3521 mentioned in the correspondence below is the Baucus-Hatch tax extenders bill, known as the Senate’s ”Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012.”  Also take note of the specific lobbying efforts suggested for reaching out to both Senate and House members.

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September 17, 2012

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has put out to members that the House will adjourn this week and not return until after the election.

Leader Cantor has issued a floor schedule for the week that doesn’t include consideration of a tax extenders bill or the stand-alone WOTC extension, H.R. 2082. 

Barring a miracle this week, in November the House will have gone eleven months without drafting an extenders bill, although Ways and Means took extensive testimony.

House leaders also declined to pass WOTC separately on the VOW for Veterans bill, the Agriculture bill, or on Welfare Reform Reauthorization.

Our lobbying situation in the House is we have a sound bill, H.R. 2082, that we should continue to seek co-sponsors for among House Republicans; we have a 50-state lobbying plan targeting key House Republicans and the Leadership; and House Republicans will be back in their districts running for re-election from September 21st till mid-November.

Your representatives are ready to listen. Now is the time for meeting with your congressman personally to press for action on WOTC extension.

In the Senate, we are bending every effort to have S.3521 attached to the Continuing Resolution. Several members have come forward to make key contacts supporting this effort.

Senator Reid isn’t saying how he’ll handle the CR after it is taken up Wednesday afternoon, although he may file cloture.

Senator Reid’s motion to consider S.3521 is still before the Senate and there will still be time for the Senate to pass this bi-partisan bill separately from the CR before adjournment.

 PAUL E. SUPLIZIO
President, WOTC Coalition

 

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US House Signals: “No Tax Extenders Until After Election”

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

According to Paul Suplizio, President of the WOTC Coalition, the US House of Representatives’ recently announced summer legislative schedule sends a clear message about the intentions of the House Republican Leadership – no tax extenders until after the election.

Tax Reform is officially dead for the year, as it’s not included in the summer legislative schedule announced today by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.  Instead, the only tax bill the House will take up this summer is extension of the Bush tax cuts.

WOTC and other tax extenders aren’t mentioned, which means House leaders are signaling they have no intention to consider them until after the election.

The ongoing delay in dealing with the tax extenders does not signal their death.  Remember that in 2006, tax extenders including WOTC were not passed until December, more than 11 months after their expiration.  Read more.

The following is published with permision.

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From: Paul Suplizio wotc@cox.net
To: ‘Paul Suplizio’ wotc@cox.net
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:20 PM
Subject: House Schedules Vote on Bush Tax Cuts in July

May 25, 2012

Tax Reform is officially dead for the year, as it’s not included in the summer legislative schedule announced today by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Instead, the only tax bill the House will take up this summer is extension of the Bush tax cuts.

WOTC and other tax extenders aren’t mentioned, which means House leaders are signaling they have no intention to consider them until after the election.

(Post-election, several must-do tax measures must be acted on by year-end—Bush tax cuts, estate and payroll tax extension, alternative minimum tax relief, and others—WOTC and other tax extenders could be part of these bills.)

The economy isn’t percolating these days so pressure may build for a summer deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, as the unemployment situation favors another one-year extension. A Bush extension bill would provide an opportunity to attach WOTC and we are committed to making the attempt.

If the White House signals an interest in negotiations on Bush this summer, there’s a good chance Senate negotiators could bring WOTC and other extenders into the talks because Senators Reid and Baucus are committed to passing the extenders. We are told the White House is preparing an answer to Speaker Boehner on possible talks to help the economy.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has already characterized Leader Cantor’s proposal to extend the Bush cuts as “holding tax relief for middle class Americans hostage to tax cuts for the wealthy.” White House willingness to enter negotiations would be a sea-change.

Should negotiations to extend the Bush tax cuts occur during the next two months, we must be ready to overcome Republican resistance to including WOTC in any deal, so our current lobbying plan to engage House and Senate Republicans to support WOTC remains vital.

Should the Parties decline to negotiate, the House may pass an extension of Bush but the Senate won’t act on it. There are still the Highway and miscellaneous tariff bills, and perhaps others, that could serve as a vehicle for enacting WOTC and other extenders if we can get Senator McConnell and Senator Reid to agree to add an extenders amendment to one of those bills. (The only way bills pass in the Senate is when Reid and McConnell agree, as either Party can block the other.)

Both Reid and McConnell have made statements on the Senate floor supporting passage of the extenders, but the foot-dragging is on the Republican side where some senators want to prune the extenders list. To get action on WOTC, the best way to persuade Senator McConnell to move is to get a majority of Republican members of the Senate to urge him to delay no longer on passage of an extenders bill including WOTC.

PAUL E. SUPLIZIO
President, WOTC Coalition

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Note:  Bold emphasis is in original.

 

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Latest News on Payroll Tax Cut Extension and WOTC Renewal

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

I thought you might appreciate the following excerpt from a recent email update I received from WOTC Coalition President Paul Suplizio.  Some of this has been reported in the news but Paul’s perspective adds something important.  I am re-publishing this with his permission.

In a statement [Monday], Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor said they will no longer require offsets for the $100 billion cost to extend the payroll tax cut to the end of the year, and are preparing a bill that will extend the payroll tax cut separately if the conference reaches no agreement, leaving the conference to continue working on unemployment insurance and Medicare doctors’ payments.

The conference committee is being notified of this new Republican position, which means $100 billion of the total $160 billion cost of the payroll bill would not have to be offset.

The conferees still have time to reach agreement on a total package, but if they don’t the Speaker is free to make the effort to pass a stand-alone bill extending the payroll tax only. This would remove payroll tax as a partisan issue, but the Speaker is likely to need Democratic support because of the roughly ninety Republicans who would not vote to increase the deficit.

Senator Reid is expected to make the extenders part of the bill he has said he will introduce if the conference bogs down. He will have the option to bring it to a vote or attach it to any stand-alone payroll bill that passes the House.

Unemployment compensation and doc fix remain “must do” issues, even if payroll tax is passed separately—thus we continue to work for the tax extenders to be added to HR 3630 in conference.

If $40 billion for tax extenders is added, the total requiring offset would be $100 billion for unemployment insurance, doctors’ fix, and the tax extenders. Democrats are arguing unemployment insurance should not be offset, and a good case can be made for not offsetting the tax extenders.

Comments: The Republican leadership’s concession on not requiring a budget offset to the “cost” of the payroll-tax-cut extension reduces the total amount of offsets needed to pass all of the priority items.  One of those priority items is the tax extenders, which will presumably include WOTC.

What this boils down to is that we are likely to at least see legislation soon with tax extenders attached.  Whether Congress can pass it, of course, is a separate question.  Nothing is certain and the political environment remains volatile.

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