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Brown blasts House GOP on payroll tax cuts

By Bobby Caina Calvan

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 19, 2011

A congressional deal to extend a payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits was on the brink of collapse today, prompting some Republican senators such as Scott Brown of Massachusetts to lash out at House Republicans for balking at a stop-gap measure approved by the Senate over the weekend.

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