Capitol Ink · 117th Congress
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Matson knew the Respect for Marriage Act was coming up for a vote in the Senate, so he baked a cake for the Supreme Court in “Congressional bakery,” from Dec. 1.
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Campaigns · 117th Congress
Warnock pushes insulin cost caps as campaign nears finish line
Why are you blaming the 1 million Georgians who have diabetes instead of holding the pharmaceutical companies accountable?”
Congress · 117th Congress
Say it ain’t so: Reconciliation back on the table for raising debt limit
Democrats could bring it straight to the floor in that chamber under “automatic discharge” rules since it’s well after an April 1 deadline for Senate Budget Committee action.
Congress · 117th Congress
Stopgap funding bill set to dominate September agenda
Washington this month to wrestle with a White House request for $47.1 billion in emergency supplemental funds and the need to pass a stopgap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown starting Oct. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
Biden signs major climate, health care and tax bill into law
The package is estimated to cut the federal deficit by about $300 billion over the next decade, thanks to revenue raisers that include a 15 percent minimum tax on the largest corporations, a 1 percent
Congress · 117th Congress
Budget bill clears as Democrats seek to head off midterm losses
Combined with last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law that represents the other pillar of Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, Democrats will have delivered on roughly $1 trillion out of the $4
Congress · 117th Congress
Sweeping budget package passes Senate; House on deck Friday
[Sinema ready to advance budget bill after tax changes] The new taxes that made it into the Senate’s final bill are a 1 percent tax on what public companies spend on stock buybacks and a 15
Congress · 117th Congress
Debate begins on massive budget package; ‘vote-a-rama’ awaits
A 1 percent tax on what companies spend on stock buybacks was added in to boost revenue, with higher taxes on a form of pay for investment fund managers, “carried interest,” out due to Sinema.
Policy · 117th Congress
Democrats line up behind budget bill while GOP pledges ‘hell’
Substitute tax To make up for the lost revenue from the corporate minimum tax exemptions and dropping the carried interest provision, Democrats added a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks, which
Policy · 117th Congress
How ‘Build Back Better’ started, and how it’s going: a timeline
Oct. 1, 2021: Biden told House Democrats the budget package would need to be scaled down from $3.5 trillion to around $2 trillion as he asked them to hold off voting on the infrastructure bill until
Congress · 117th Congress
After Manchin tanks talks, climate action moves to life support
He reported $491,949 in income from a coal company based in Fairmont, W.Va., in a 2020 financial disclosure, which said the company is worth between $1 million and $5 million.
Congress · 117th Congress
Lawmakers who ran on ‘SALT’ relief prepare to face voters
Senate Democrats pushed back against the House-passed provision, which would deliver more than 30 percent of the tax benefit to the top 1 percent of households based on income, according to the Tax Policy
Congress · 117th Congress
Resurrected budget package no slam dunk as negotiations heat up
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo) The slimmed-down measure under discussion would raise about $1 trillion in new tax revenue — down from roughly $1.5 trillion in the House-passed “Build Back Better
Campaigns · 117th Congress
New debate over gun laws will test the gun lobby’s influence
By more than 3-to-1, gun rights groups — including the best-known National Rifle Association, which has filed for bankruptcy and may no longer be the political behemoth it once was — have outspent
Opinion · 117th Congress
The era of laissez-faire COVID-19 prevention
Only amid the crazed partisanship of the moment would anyone consider filibustering a modest appropriation to deal with a deadly virus that has killed almost 1 million Americans in just two years.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate Democrats plot March legislative push on inflation
A group of Democrats introduced a bill last week to cut the excise tax on gasoline produced, imported or sold from 18.4 cents per gallon to zero until Jan. 1, 2023.
Congress · 117th Congress
Defense appropriations likely to exceed fiscal 2022 NDAA levels
Defense spending appeared set for a larger-than-authorized increase in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 as part of a “framework” appropriators agreed to Wednesday, though the pact’s contents remained
Congress · 117th Congress
A Groundhog Day fight in Rules Committee over resolutions of inquiry
However, the language, which has been included in committee resolutions for more than 1 1/2 years, limits the use of resolutions of inquiry — a legislative tool to request that the executive branch
Congress · 117th Congress
Splitting up budget package carries procedural risks
That’s different from an original budget resolution, which can be automatically discharged from committee and brought to the floor after April 1 each year if the panel hasn’t acted yet.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
What’s in the new voting bill the Senate is trying to take up
new package comes mainly from two bills, including the Freedom to Vote Act, which was itself a compromise offered by Manchin in response to a broader House bill known as the For the People Act, or HR 1.