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For congressional Republicans, the year's big question is how aggressive they should be in trying to advance President Donald Trump's policies as the midterm elections approach as opposed to making the sales
Still, the Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster of the Defense spending measure, and GOP leaders conceded that the ANWR language had to be removed so the spending bill could be
They were four times higher than they were just a short time ago. That was caused by Biden and stupid policies, and we got that down.
The GOP’s sales pitch faces another hurdle as well: Trump’s own inability to stay on topic. That was evident in Pennsylvania, as our colleague John T. Bennett reports.
their conference lined up behind a procedural motion to bring the "big, beautiful" reconciliation bill to the floor for debate, with a number of holdouts expressing concerns about Medicaid cuts, land sales
The bill currently would repeal the $200 sales tax on silencers, also known as suppressors.
On the campaign trail, his sales pitch focused, in large part, on extending Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts and slapping tariffs on what his team had dubbed the world’s worst actors on trade and access to economic
Democrats have pushed to revive and make permanent a fully refundable child tax credit on the national level, but have fallen short since their pandemic aid program that delivered the credit as monthly
In its Short-Term Energy Outlook for July, the agency said it expects production to average 13.2 million barrels per day in 2024 and 13.8 million barrels a day in 2025.
The second provision would allow businesses to take tax deductions for 100 percent of costs for short-term investments — like machinery, equipment and buildings — in the first year they make the purchases
Judges like Kacsmaryk appear more concerned about the internal politics of the conservative Federalist Society than they are about the short-term future of the GOP’s House majority.
Proponents say the bill could limit promotion of self-harm or disordered eating and reduce online drug sales. Despite intense lobbying, it was not included in the omnibus.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy fell 15 votes short of securing the speaker’s gavel Tuesday in the first of what could be several ballots to determine who will lead the chamber for the next two
Beyond that Alaska project and Tellico, “Congress has passed similar laws to mandate timber sales in spotted owl habitat and to delist the gray wolf in the Rockies regardless of what the ESA says,” Parenteau
Seven Republicans voted in favor of the private-sector insulin cap in floor action that ran from Saturday to Sunday, but that still fell short of the 60 votes needed.
Manchin identified three goals he was willing to pursue in those negotiations: lowering prescription drug costs; shoring up fossil fuels in the short term and transitioning to more clean energy sources
“For short- and medium-distance air travel, for example, we might be able to do that on a battery-electric or fuel cell basis, but for long-haul aviation, we’re certainly going to need sustainable
But that measure would offer no credit for early sales and includes a lower tax rate of 8 percent after five years, along with a $1,000 per-site tax.
aspirational and say that if Congress were to actually meet the scope of the needs, a figure more in the $100 billion range over 10 years, similar to the approach taken with HIV/AIDS, would still fall short
Committee Democrats said a Senate competition bill fell short of their goals by omitting the Trade Adjustment Assistance program and by renewing the Generalized System of Preferences without requiring