{"id":28506,"date":"2012-04-17T07:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28506"},"modified":"2012-04-17T07:54:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:54:36","slug":"in-senate-republicans-block-debate-on-%e2%80%98buffett-rule%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2012\/in-senate-republicans-block-debate-on-%e2%80%98buffett-rule%e2%80%99.html","title":{"rendered":"In Senate, Republicans Block Debate on \u2018Buffett Rule\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a move to open debate on the so-called Buffett Rule, ensuring that a measure pressed for months by President Obama and Senate Democrats to ensure that the superrich pay a tax rate of at least 30 percent will not come to a decisive vote.<\/p>\n<p>But the fierce debate preceding the 51-45 vote \u2014 the Democrats were nine votes short of the 60 they needed \u2014 set off a week of political wrangling over taxes that both parties insist they are already winning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/17\/us\/politics\/buffett-rule-debate-blocked-by-republicans.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a move to open debate on the so-called Buffett Rule, ensuring that a measure pressed for months by President Obama and Senate Democrats to ensure that the superrich pay a tax rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28508,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28506\/revisions\/28508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}