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... Capitol Hill this year. And that's all apart from the legislation Trump wants to see, including a rewrite of the tax code to lower rates, a sweeping infrastructure bill, and renewed efforts to repeal Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act after McConnell tried and failed last month - an outcome ...
... executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. The new law will give states flexibility to focus on additional measures such as graduation rates, Minnich said in an interview. There are risks that states may set goals too low or not act quickly enough, said Daria Hall, vice ...
... JIM LEHRER: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks. Is Bill Clinton still a man who rates listening to and paying attention to? MARK SHIELDS: You know, Jim, John Sears, who's a brilliant Republican strategist, worked for ...
... elections. Democrats derided the bill as a GOP gift to its wealthy and business backers at the expense of lower-earning people. They contrasted the bill’s permanent reduction in corporate income tax rates from 35 percent to 20 percent to smaller individual tax breaks that would end in 2026 ...
... In the Senate, Rubio had long been a prominent voice on immigration and was a key member of a group that worked on a 2013 bill that included a path to citizenship for millions of people in the country illegally. Now, Rubio says he support’s Trump’s plan to ...
... right," de Blasio said in a news conference Wednesday, where he gave an update on the city's efforts to address the pandemic. During an interview with CNN earlier Wednesday, de Blasio also said that data showing rates of new coronavirus infections declining in the New York metropolitan area, but ...
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that he is hopeful Congress will pass a major tax overhaul this year and signaled that the administration would be open to changes sought by Congress to improve the chances for passage. In an interview with CNBC, Mnuchin also said the administration would ...
... being put together. Quite frankly, the motion to proceed, not to get inside baseball, but that's when the majority leader -- means bringing up a bill. And I have never seen a motion to proceed, which is just asking that the bill be brought up for debate, fail. And Mitch ...
After weeks of will-they-or-won’t-they tensions, the House passed its GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act on Thursday by a razor-thin margin. It now heads to the Senate, where it will face more internal strife and five big hurdles that could potentially derail their plan.
House Republicans' failure to repeal Barack Obama's health care law deals a serious blow to another big part of President Donald Trump's agenda: tax reform.
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