Sweeney Calls NJ Millionaire Tax a `Shared Sacrifice': Video

Even for New Jersey politics, this is "bizarro world." "I mean, you have a guy who's threatened with being kicked out — for doing his job!" Patrick Murray, the Monmouth University political scientist, told Business Insider. "It's just nuts."

House Republicans delayed a vote on Speaker John Boehner’s tax-increase plan and called a meeting to consider how to build support for it or decide their next move in the U.S. budget standoff. Republicans had planned to vote tonight on the measure that would allow higher tax rates on annual income above $1 million. They delayed after a related spending-cut bill passed with only a few votes to spare. Asked whether she thought the party could resurrect Boehner’s measure tonight, Representative Kay Granger, a Texas Republican, shook her head no.