Passing a Shell of A Bill: Congress' Secret Plan to Ram Through Health Care...
With the President and Congress’s plan to pass comprehensive health care reform reaching increasingly high levels of unpopularity, and reconciliation becoming an impediment, the leadership of the...
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Read the Bill! What Bill?
Live from the Senate Finance Committee Mark-up During the Senate Finance Committee mark up of the Baucus health bill today Senator Bunning of Kentucky put forth an innovative amendment. This amendment...
View ArticleMorning Bell: The Baucus Bait And Switch
Throughout the health care debate, President Barack Obama repeatedly promised the American people that his health care plan “will help bring our deficits under control in the long term.” The problem is...
View ArticleThe Senate Cloakroom: Nov. 9 – 13
Analysis – With Veterans’ Day on Wednesday, the Senate will have a shorter than normal workweek – Monday and Tuesday. Senators will spend the remainder of the week back home honoring veterans and,...
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Senate Democrats Want Unnecessary $1.5 Trillion Tax Increase
Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Newscom It has been nearly four years since the last time the Senate passed a budget. In that time, it hasn’t as much as proposed a budget. That at long last changed...
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Too Big to Fail: Some Questions for the House Financial Services Committee
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) (James Berglie/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) Tomorrow, the House Finance Committee, chaired by Representative Jeb Hensarling (R–TX), is holding a hearing on one of the most damaging...
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Baucus–Hatch “Blank Slate” Tax Reform a Positive Step but Too Narrowly Focused
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) (Newscom) Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D–MT) and Ranking Member Senator Orrin Hatch (R–UT) recently proposed a “blank-slate” approach to tax reform. This...
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Gandolfini’s Death and the Need to Repeal the Death Tax
James Gandolfini, star of HBO’s ”The Sopranos’ (HBO/ZUMA Press/Newscom) James Gandolfini died of a heart attack last month while traveling in Rome. The Sopranos star was estimated to be worth nearly...
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Baucus Heads Wrong Way on Important Part of Tax Reform — Again
Newscom Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D–MT) continues to release draft proposals on important parts of tax reform. His latest draft proposal is a deeply troubling plan. Baucus...
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Senate Democrats Want Unnecessary $1.5 Trillion Tax Increase
Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Newscom It has been nearly four years since the last time the Senate passed a budget. In that time, it hasn’t as much as proposed a budget. That at long last changed...
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Too Big to Fail: Some Questions for the House Financial Services Committee
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) (James Berglie/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) Tomorrow, the House Finance Committee, chaired by Representative Jeb Hensarling (R–TX), is holding a hearing on one of the most damaging...
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Baucus–Hatch “Blank Slate” Tax Reform a Positive Step but Too Narrowly Focused
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) (Newscom) Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D–MT) and Ranking Member Senator Orrin Hatch (R–UT) recently proposed a “blank-slate” approach to tax reform. This...
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Gandolfini’s Death and the Need to Repeal the Death Tax
James Gandolfini, star of HBO’s ”The Sopranos’ (HBO/ZUMA Press/Newscom) James Gandolfini died of a heart attack last month while traveling in Rome. The Sopranos star was estimated to be worth nearly...
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Baucus Heads Wrong Way on Important Part of Tax Reform — Again
Newscom Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D–MT) continues to release draft proposals on important parts of tax reform. His latest draft proposal is a deeply troubling plan. Baucus...
View ArticleConstructive Small Business Expensing Bill Introduced
Representatives Pat Tiberi (R–OH) and Ron Kind (D–WI), both Ways and Means Committee members, have introduced the America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014 (H.R. 4457). This legislation would...
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