Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is vowing to block a payroll tax-cut extension that passed the U.S. House of Representatives because it includes Republican priorities that Democrats oppose.

Showing a new conciliatory tone, Senate leaders opened congressional business Thursday by suggesting that a bipartisan compromise might come soon on a spending measure to keep the government running past Friday and a bill to extend a one-year cut in the payroll tax rate paid by 160 million workers. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who has been holding up a $1 trillion spending ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says his chamber won't approve a House Republican bill extending the payroll tax cut that also clears the way for construction of a controversial oil pipeline.

Senate Democrats will unveil a new $180 billion payroll tax extension plan this afternoon, a scaled back version of their original proposal that failed in the Senate last week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will speak as soon as the Senate gavels in, and then ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hopes to get a vote this week on a compromise to extend a popular payroll tax cut set to expire at the end of this month, a Democratic aide said on Monday.