Senate Democrats to force GOP to vote on tax cuts this Saturday. [View All]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to schedule two votes on Saturday on Democratic plans to end Bush-era tax breaks for the nation’s highest income earners.

One plan sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would extend current tax rates only for families that earn less than $250,000. The second plan offered by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) would extend tax rates only for families that earn less than $1 million.

The Senate will hold cloture votes on both of those measures Saturday to end Republican filibusters blocking them from floor consideration.

“Our priorities are very, very simple and direct,” Reid told reporters Thursday night. “One, we want to make sure the American people know we believe that tax cuts should be extended for people making less than $250,000 a year.

“And just to make sure the American people understand that we do not support giving tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, we’re going to have a second vote on that,” Reid added.

Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) said Democrats were getting tired of talking about taxes and itching to act.

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