In 2008, a House bill to ban retroactive interest rate hikes, limit abusive fees and rein in deceptive marketing techniques passed by an overwhelming margin, but the banking lobby successfully prevented a similar measure from coming to a vote in the Senate.
Another dark-horse tax hike would limit the value of itemized deductions for the better off.
"Thad Cochran's reelection to the Senate means that K Street lobbyists can charge higher fees to lobby the Appropriations Committee, but it means tax hikes, debt limit increases and bailouts for Mississippi voters," said Barney Keller, spokesman for the Club for Growth.
The third is a "revenue raiser" (meaning tax hike) which limits the capital gains tax break now available to taxpayers who convert a vacation home or rental property into their primary residence.
GOP leaders and rank-and-file members alike have voiced support for the underlying principles of the new pledge, which would require them to oppose hiking the debt limit without first adopting a balanced-budget amendment and other major spending reforms.
I had a list of activities to gently push my limits: hiking, climbing, fish-killing, flying, sailing.
There were skeptics last spring when I said in New York that we should have spending cuts larger than any debt limit hike we gave the president.
The Associated Press (@AP) BREAKING: AP Sources: House GOP offers debt limit hike, end to shutdown in package with spending cuts October 11, 2013 Updated at 4.35pm BST 4.27pm BST The Republicans have arrived to the White House, CBS News reports.
This fee hike will definitely limit access to too many Latino families".
In August 2011, House Republicans refused to approve a debt limit hike until two days before the U.S. would have hit its limit.
