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Jan 22 2024
Headline Roundup
Are Lawmakers Close to a Deal on Immigration?
What’s preventing lawmakers from reaching a deal on immigration reform?
For Context: In May 2023, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed H.R.2, the “Secure the Border Act.” Negotiations on immigration reform in the Senate are ongoing. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said last week that a Senate deal significantly less than H.R.2 would be “dead” in the House.
Washington Post The Hill New York Post (Opinion)Jul 16 2021
News
Infrastructure Talks Stall Over Expanded IRS Powers
Disagreements over expanding the Internal Revenue Service have snarled lawmakers’ efforts to firm up their roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure agreement before an initial vote next week gauging the deal’s support.
In an hourslong meeting Thursday afternoon with White House officials, Republicans and Democrats who have spent weeks negotiating the deal again grappled with how to
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 26 2013
Opinion
Obama's cynical sequester strategy
President Obama has taken the middle class hostage in a thinly veiled bid to hike their taxes.
Fox News DigitalFeb 20 2013
News
Obama Seeks Sequester Scare
Would Republicans rather your house burn down than raise taxes on rich people?
Fox News DigitalFeb 19 2013
News
Simpson and Bowles to Offer Up Deficit Fix
Deficit hawks Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will propose a detailed plan for rewriting the tax code.
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 08 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Kyrsten Sinema Deserves Some Privacy
From the CenterI’m still deciding what I think about Kyrsten Sinema.
The Arizona Democrat is a centrist on a political landscape that needs more of them. She’s an unpredictable free spirit in a staid and polarized U.S. Senate that certainly benefits from her willingness to flout stylistic and partisan traditions. And she seems to be a workhorse rather than a showhorse, one of those
Dan SchnurMay 25 2017
News
What the Federal Budget Does With Your Money
President Trump released a new draft budget yesterday—which means that your federal tax dollars may be going to different places. Let’s take a look at what happens to the money we pay the IRS, and how much we each personally spend.
LifehackerMay 13 2015
News
These laws went into effect Tuesday
A slew of new laws went into effect for the state of Utah Tuesday including a law that makes not wearing a seat belt a primary offense.
House Bill 349, the new prison reform bill is among the state's new laws. It will get many drug addicts into treatment, instead of prison.
The firing squad is now an acceptable form of execution and the ban on powdered alcohol also goes into
ABC4 UtahOct 02 2019
News
How President Pence Would Blow Up 2020
If the Senate were to remove President Donald Trump from office—which could happen only on a bipartisan vote—the 2016 election results wouldn’t be overturned. Democrats wouldn’t control the White House. America’s reward for convicting Trump would be President Michael Richard Pence.
Nine out of every 10 Republican respondents said in a Quinnipiac poll released Monday that Trump should
PoliticoSep 27 2019
News
Dem Report: NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' for Russia
The National Rifle Association was a "foreign asset" for Russia as the 2016 presidential election neared — and the gun-rights group underwrote political access for convicted spy Maria Butina and others despite knowing their Kremlin ties, according to a Senate Democratic report Friday.
"NRA officers' apparent use of the NRA for personal gain fits a larger pattern of reported self-dealing
Newsmax (News)