Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), one of the leading moderates in the House, confirmed Tuesday that the House will amend an agreement in the Senate to impose a two-year delay on the medical device tax.
Dent, emerging from the House GOP’s meeting Tuesday morning, told MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown” that the House would also alter two other areas of the agreement.
“The speaker had said this: that the House is likely to launch an initiative, as early as today, that would do a few things: essentially use the same time frames for the debt limit and the CR as in the Senate negotiations … it would strike the reinsurance tax — the $63 per head tax for the large self-insurers and the large unions,” Dent said. “That would be out and would replaced with a two-year delay of the medical device tax, plus a variation of the derivative of the Vitter language, minus the congressional staff. But I think it would affect Congress and the White House and White House staff.”
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