House GOP Bars Step That Perils Tax Bill
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WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders today apparently short-circuited a GOP move that some lawmakers believed could scuttle the tax reform bill when it comes to a vote Thursday.
In a closed-door party caucus, aides said, House Republicans agreed that when the sweeping compromise legislation comes to the House floor, some GOP members dissatisfied with the plan will not be allowed to offer a specific motion to send it back to the House-Senate conference committee that drafted it.
That motion would have called for the conference committee to change several specific parts of the bill, including new restrictions that would be placed on individual retirement accounts.
Because the motion would have addressed several popular items, such as the IRAs, there was some fear on the part of supporters of the bill that the motion had the potential for passing. If the bill were sent back to the conference committee with those specific instructions, it might not survive.
However, aides said Republican leader Robert H. Michel of Illinois won a battle in the party caucus to stop that motion from being offered.
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