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“Republicans have two weeks to meet their Christmas deadline for passing a final tax bill and are still sorting through issues as they get set to hammer out final details.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Sunday that he is aiming for a vote next week, after a bicameral conference committee continues its work to reconcile the $1.4 trillion tax cut plans passed by the House and Senate.

‘The House and Senate have two different bills — structurally they’re pretty similar,’ Mr. McCarthy, California Republican, said on Fox News.

‘They’re going to work out those differences — hopefully they can get that done this week. We come back the next week and vote on it,’ he said.

‘I feel very confident we’re going to get this done,’ Mr. McCarthy said.

Both plans slash the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent, trim rates for individuals and weed out various exemptions and deductions.

‘This is not a tax bill designed to help the American people. It is a tax bill designed to help the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations. And I’m going to do everything I can to see that it is defeated,’ Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent and another Senate conferee on the bill, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” (Excerpted from The Washington Times , by David Sherfinski.)