Via Beltway Confidential:
By a party-line vote of 229-193, the House of Representatives has blocked the Senate-passed bill to extend the payroll tax cut, and called instead for a conference between the two chambers to hash out their differences and reach a compromise.
Republican leaders structured the vote in a way so as to avoid its members having to vote directly on the Senate bill, a move sharply criticized by Democrats. The vote was mostly along party lines, but a few Republicans broke ranks to vote against the measure.