Senate Committee Agrees to Tax Package with County Payments Extension

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced today that a package of tax cut extenders that includes multi-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 has been agreed upon in the Senate Committee on Finance, a committee of which he is a member. The bill would reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools program, commonly known as the county payments law through 2011, while fully funding the Payment in Lieu of Taxes program for 2009 thanks to an amendment authored by Wyden.