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Tax Deal Passes House

17 December 2010

You know how when you were a kid, you’d think about something coming up that you were really looking forward to – like Christmas or your birthday or vacation – and then it would come and you were all, “This is it?” The tax deal passed last night in the House. It was kind of [...]

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The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

16 December 2010

Word out of the House today was that the controversial tax deal is going to pass with no significant changes. They just aren’t going to do it this afternoon. Last night, the House Rules Committee agreed to a vote that would separately address the estate tax provisions desired by House leadership. The idea was to [...]

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Vote on Tax Cuts Expected This Week

1 December 2010

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) indicated just a few weeks ago that a vote on the expiring Bush tax cuts would happen in mid-December. It turns out that the rest of the House is a bit more optimistic than she is: Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has announced that he expects a vote on Thursday. [...]

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Black Friday, Indeed, for Congress: Vote Looming

19 November 2010

Democratic leaders met this week to talk turkey and decided on two things: A vote on the Bush tax cuts won’t happen until after Thanksgiving; and The Bush tax cuts will be extended for those making $250,000 or less. And that’s all we have. That means there’s a lot, obviously, that we don’t know. Here [...]

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Pelosi Touts Democrats’ Tax Position

1 October 2010

Last night, NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff spoke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) about the upcoming elections and key issues affecting voters. Not surprisingly, tax cuts were at the forefront of the discussing. Speaker Pelosi indicated that she was amenable to considering cutting corporate tax rates: We’re all for putting everything on the table, talking about [...]

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Repeal, What Repeal? We’ve Got Egos to Stroke! Special Interest Groups to Pacify!

31 July 2010

Remember those new reporting requirements for businesses that were tucked away inside the health care bill? “Unpopular” doesn’t even begin to describe the provision. So what’s a legislator to do in the midst of an election year? Repeal the very piece of legislation that you passed earlier in the year. Now you can take credit [...]

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Bipartisan Efforts to Reduce Unemployment In the Works

8 February 2010

If there’s one thing that both parties in Congress can agree on, it’s that any hope for economic recovery is going to hinge on getting unemployment under control. At the end of 2009, one out of every ten Americans able to work wasn’t working. Fortunately, there’s some good news. Last month, the national unemployment rate [...]

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ACORN Loses Federal Funding

17 September 2009

Just days after offering some “interesting” tax advice on film, ACORN was hit with a House bill that would deny federal funds to the group. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) explained: ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund this corrupt [...]

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Oops, He Did It Again: More Rangel Tax Blips

28 August 2009

Last year, United States Representative Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), who heads up the powerful Ways and Means Committee, found himself in hot water when it came to light that he “forgot” to report some rental income on his personal taxes. Apparently, Rangel’s memory hasn’t gotten any better. In an effort to comply with an ethics [...]

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Health Care Bill Update

16 July 2009

One version of the health care reform bill has passed in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee with a vote of 13-10. And this one only costs $600 billion. Committee Chair Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) wrote, about the bill: We have done the hard work that the American people sent us here to [...]

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