In February, we asked HuffPost readers to help us dig through the stimulus bill, and hundreds of readers wrote in with great tips, including the news that a provision to extend health care coverage for some laid-off workers had been stripped from the Senate version of the legislation.
President Barack Obama has vowed to veto the legislation, despite the political problems arising from rejecting a bill meant to help small businesses, including a provision to extend a long-running research program paid with a tax on federal research agencies.
Much of the anger over the plan came from a provision to extend those payments to members of paramilitary groups killed by their own bombs.
Also discarded from the final deal was a provision to extend the European Union's legal limit on monthly roaming charges to 50 euros in countries outside the union.
The council said a provision to extend already existed.
The measure was an amendment attached to a bill on helping small businesses, including a provision to extend a long-running research program.
Ministers have acknowledged that this definition is so wide that it will catch everyday stimulants such as tobacco, alcohol and caffeine, and that the bill will include a list of exemptions for legitimate substances with provision to extend it further.
However, unlike with bills, there is no provision to extend the original deadline.
The tax package, which Congress passed last month, will affect an estimated 94 million Americans, mainly through its provision to extend a broader 10percenttaxax bracket.
Meanwhile, Congressman Steve Israel is trying to get out ahead of the print-your-own-gun industry with a bill to extend the ban on undetectable guns, which also contains new provisions aimed at 3-D printed components.
