Senate GOP Anger at Reid Boiling Over

Photo Credit: Susan Walsh / APSenate Republicans on Thursday, angered after Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blocked amendment votes on a bill, threatened to torpedo legislation they support on extending tax breaks.

If Republicans follow through, it would be the second time this week that a bipartisan bill was stopped in its tracks because of a broader fight over Senate floor procedure.

Reid has refused to allow amendments on a bill that hit the chamber floor that would revive more than 50 tax breaks, commonly known as “extenders,” that lapsed at the end of 2013.

Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, who crafted the tax extenders plan with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), offered to work with the GOP on amendments after the measure cleared another procedural hurdle on Thursday.

But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wasn’t interested.

Read more from this story HERE.