Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The GOP Tax Bill — All Hat and No Rabbit
The 400-page version that passed the House was cobbled together in two weeks without a single hearing.
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The 400-page version that passed the House was cobbled together in two weeks without a single hearing.
Al Franken of groping and kissing her without consent in an open letter Thursday on the radio station’s website.
No Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the tax bill, which is moving through the budget reconciliation process so that the Senate can also pass it without Democratic votes if needed.
Without a legislative victory on health care to tout in their districts, Republicans have been adamant that they need to pass something — anything — on taxes.
Ron Wyden, the Finance panel’s ranking member, said Wednesday. Finance Chairman Orrin G. Hatch said he’d “like to finish by tomorrow, but if we can’t, we’ll go into Friday.”
Despite my Catholic’s albatross of a not-quite-encyclopedic knowledge of scripture, I do recall parables of Jesus throwing the money changers out of the temple, exalting the lowly and befriending
“If they can pass it without me, let them,” Johnson told The Wall Street Journal. “I’m not going to vote for this tax package.”
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“I don’t entirely believe you. I think this was meant to be hurtful. It was meant to deride a young woman,” Franken said.
Sessions said that was not an intended result. The Florida Democrat mused that C-SPAN’s absence could create another effect. “Maybe members won’t be posturing, me included,” he said.
But ranking member Ron Wyden insisted that the “11th hour” decision by Republicans to insert the repeal was being done without proper debate or Congressional Budget Office experts on hand to answer questions
Secretary Rick Perry, the electric grid is more resilient — able to bounce back from disasters of the natural and man-made variety — when it has plenty of so-called baseload power that can run 24/7, with or without
The ad hints at allegations that Moore had inappropriate sexual contact with teenage girls without saying it explicitly.
, hospitals and charities to endorse candidates without risk of losing their tax-exempt status.
“I think, unfortunately, if you look at his Cabinet, if you look at his misremembering history, I think he is deliberately trying to whiten the country,” Rep. Cedric L.
Paul suffered six broken ribs in the assault, he said.
Nine say ‘no’ — for now The maximum number of votes Republicans can lose and still pass the bill without Democratic support is 22.
“I just asked him again. He said he … absolutely did not meddle in our election, he did not do what they are saying he did,” Trump said.
Who would want to go through that, she said, without a guarantee that it would make a difference?
“If there’s one or two things that we’ve been able to work through and get past and they take out, I think we can live [with] that,” Walker said Wednesday.