Republican politics at its most cynical

House approves sweeping pension reforms
Lawmakers also vote to lift minimum wage and lower estate taxes

While lawmakers had largely come to agreement on the pension measures, a disagreement over whether to include popular tax measures wasn't resolved. In the end, House GOP leaders chose to remove the tax measures in an effort to combine them with controversial legislation to reduce the estate tax.

Republican leaders chose to remove the tax measures, which included the renewal of the already-lapsed research-and-development tax credit and a college tuition credit, from the pension bill. Instead, the measures were married to House legislation boosting the minimum wage and reducing the estate tax.

Fuck them.