The tax overhaul bill including drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could go to the Senate floor for a vote as early as Nov. 29 after the Senate Budget Committee voted along party lines to advance it. The panel's approval came on a party line vote of 12-11 after GOP Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Bob Corker of Tennessee put aside objections related to business taxes and deficit impacts. Under the budget process Republicans are using to pass the tax bill without Democratic votes, the Budget Committee was tasked with combining the Finance Committee's tax measure with the Alaska drilling proposal from the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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