House GOP Offers Deal on Tax Cuts.

• Position: Brief Article

House Republicans have offered to support a $1 increase in the minimum wage in exchange for an increase in a tax cut package for small business owners. The new package would include a total of $76 billion in tax cuts over the next decade. The move comes as part of an end of the session effort by House Republicans to explore areas of possible compromise with the White House. The proposal--a revision of a similar wage package that contained a slightly smaller tax cut provision recently passed by the Senate--would expand a...