WASHINGTON – Within the past hour, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell marched onto the U.S. Senate floor to announce that "We have the votes" to pass a measure that would cut federal income and corporate taxes.
The tax proposal will proceed to a joint committee of U.S. House and U.S. Senate members to iron out the differences in their plans.
In response, Illinois' senior senator Dick Durbin expressed outrage on his Twitter feed that Republicans had not worked with Democrats to come up with a mutually acceptable plan as it nears passage from the U.S. Senate:
