Congress · 117th Congress
GOP blasts vaccine mandate, and defense contractors are fretting
Raytheon had already issued its own corporate vaccine mandate, but with a Jan. 1 deadline.
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Congress · 117th Congress
Biden makes $1.75T sales pitch to House Democrats
An additional $125 billion would come from a 1 percent surcharge that would be levied on corporations when they buy back shares of their own stock.
Congress · 117th Congress
Wyden details proposed tax on billionaires’ unrealized gains
Wyden’s draft legislation would apply a new tax, beginning in 2022, for individuals with at least $1 billion in assets or $100 million annual income in three straight taxable years.
Congress · 117th Congress
‘Pride in product’ colors lawmakers’ view of budget negotiations
A 21-page measure would institute a 15 percent minimum tax on corporate “book” income for companies that report $1 billion in profits to investors.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Democrats hope for morale boost in Ohio special election, but GOP not worried
Her total for the cycle was $823,000, compared with $1 million for Carey. Both had around $180,000 in the bank on Oct. 13.
Congress · 117th Congress
Hundreds of Americans remain in Afghanistan, Pentagon official says
Since Sept. 1, the State Department has helped facilitate the departure of 240 U.S. citizens, plus an additional 157 green card holders, Kahl said.
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats eye Medicare Advantage as potential reconciliation offset
Altogether, the health care costs may approach $1 trillion over a decade.
Congress · 117th Congress
Child care funds likely spared the budget ax other programs face
subsidies for families earning above 200 percent of state median income starting in 2025; a Sherrill amendment removed that limit but retained a requirement that families attest they have less than $1
Congress · 117th Congress
Manchin tries to slow clean energy shift as West Virginia clings to coal
[jwp-video n=”1″] By comparison, the top coal producer, Wyoming, gets 80 percent of its power from coal.
Congress · 117th Congress
Debt ceiling hangs over Democrats’ legislative home stretch
mark up the revised budget in committee, rather than employ a special “auto discharge” procedure Democrats were able to use for the initial fiscal 2022 budget since the panel didn’t act before an April 1
Policy · 117th Congress
Supreme Court takes on cases about Texas abortion law
The justices agreed to decide issues in two lawsuits — one from abortion providers and one from the Justice Department — and set both for oral argument Nov. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
Lawmakers decry ‘alarming’ hunger in US military families
The Senate bill would cost around $1 million a year, giving about 500 families an average of $200 a month, while the House bill would help 3,000 families with $400 a month on average, costing just over
Policy · 117th Congress
NIH grantee in Wuhan faces questions, deadline for more information on research
NIH as well as independent virologists emphasize that the virus EcoHealth was working on, which was named WIV-1 after the Wuhan lab, is too genetically dissimilar to be an ancestor of the coronavirus
Opinion · 117th Congress
Democrats need to abandon their all-or-nothing approach to immigration reform
The first would “recapture” more than 1 million green cards already authorized by Congress that have gone unused since 1992 because of administrative errors.
Policy · 117th Congress
Pentagon, intelligence agencies detail climate threat to security
The update, which is due by February 1, 2022, will include descriptions of how the Pentagon intends to deal with extreme weather events and sea level rise — and how much it could cost.
Congress · 117th Congress
Two-year spending caps deal on the table in appropriations talks
Appropriators remain stalled over the budget ceiling for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 and how to allocate discretionary funds among their 12 subcommittees.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Biden ignores voters’ No. 1 issue, just like Obama did
While health care was obviously a very important issue, Obama chose not to make the No. 1 issue, creating jobs, the Democrats’ No. 1 issue.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
GOP blocks latest Senate attempt to bring up elections overhaul bill
“We want to see him show us that it’s the No. 1 issue for him.”
Policy · 117th Congress
Lawmakers clash over surprise billing law’s implementation
influential voices in the health care industry that spent millions trying to influence the law are pushing the Biden administration to amend its surprise billing policies before the law takes effect on Jan. 1.
Policy · 117th Congress
FDA authorizes broad, flexible COVID-19 booster policy
Boosting Johnson & Johnson recipients with an mRNA vaccine such as those by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna may be seven to 12 times as powerful, according to a phase 1-2 trial of 458 volunteers backed