Tax Credit Extension Bills

Question: Why is extending the PATRIOT ACT part of Obama’s Jobs Bill a.k.a. Stimulus Bill 2?
A draft of the roughly $80 billion bill, obtained by POLITICO, has a wide range of tax credits and job creation ideas, but it also includes provisions unrelated to jobs, including a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, infusion of new money to the Highway Trust Fund and extension of the so-called “doc fix.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said drafting of the bill had been completed Tuesday afternoon, and he threatened to keep the Senate in session into the weekend to get it done, even as the rest of Washington shut down for the second round of punishing blizzards.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/021…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32744.html#ixzz17en5BL69
Answer: Forces Republicans to vote for it.
Playing politics with national security… typical Liberal play.
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