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Wyden, Brown, Warner Unveil International Taxation Overhaul Discussion Draft

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., today unveiled their draft legislation to overhaul international taxation and invest in America by ensuring mega-corporations pay their fair share.


Brady, Reed, Crapo, Scott, and Young ask GAO to Clarify Authorities and Term of Acting SSA Commissioner

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republicans have requested clarification from U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro on the authorities and the term of an Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) following the unlawful firing of the Senate confirmed Commissioner.


REPORT: Business Leaders Fear Bidenflation and Dems’ Tax-And-Spend Agenda

News Release: REPORT: Business Leaders Fear Bidenflation and Dems’ Tax-And-Spend Agenda.


Crapo, Scott, Young, Brady and Reed ask GAO to Clarify Authorities and Term of Acting SSA Commissioner

News Release: Dear Comptroller Dodaro: . On July 9, President Biden took the unprecedented and unlawful step of firing the Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) Commissioner, Andrew Saul, in an unfortunate choice of politics over people. Commissioner Saul was confirmed by a wide bipartisan margin of 77-16 in the...


2020 Census Paid Temporary Workers

News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Aug. 8 - Aug. 14, 2021. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), Budget Committee Republican Leader Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), and Small Business Committee Republican Leader Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) issued the following statement applauding the passage of Senator Steve Daines’s (R-MT) amendment protecting against tax hikes on small businesses, and preserving the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s 20 percent small business tax deduction...


News Release: Bidenflation Continues to Shrink Families’ Paychecks.


Neal Statement on House Passage of FY22 Budget Resolution

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 601, the Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2022...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - “A vote for this budget resolution is the green light for higher taxes on families, on small businesses," warned Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) on Fox Business’s Kudlow.


Dems’ Spending Spree: Tax Hikes for Families & Taxpayer Dollars for Fraudsters

News Release: Dems’ Spending Spree: Tax Hikes for Families & Taxpayer Dollars for Fraudsters.


News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers regarding the location of U.S.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) today joined CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss how Democrats’ reckless, multi-trillion-dollar spending spree will land on American families and Main Street businesses in higher taxes, slashed wages, and jobs sent overseas.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of passing the budget resolution that will allow congressional committees to begin work on the Build Back Better Act...


REPORT: Biden’s Death Tax Threatens American Jobs, Family Farms, Small Businesses

News Release: REPORT: Biden’s Death Tax Threatens American Jobs, Family Farms, Small Businesses.


News Release: Brady: Stronger Return to Work in States that Ended Biden Anti-Work Unemployment Bonuses.


Leader Rodgers Statement on Speaker Pelosi’s Reckless Spending and Tax Spree

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about the budget resolution that passed the House today...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With the most recent inflation report showing prices rising faster than paychecks, families are falling behind-and with Democrats’ spending, press reports and experts are noting there’s no end in sight.


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, released the following statement on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine...


Chairs Maloney and Raskin Demand Cyber Ninjas CEO Comply with Committee Requests for Audit Documents

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Douglas Logan, Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Ninjas, demanding that he end his obstruction of the Committee’s work and fully comply with the Committee’s requests for documents related to the company’s “audit" of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona.


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Douglas Logan, Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Ninjas, demanding that he end his obstruction of the Committee’s work and fully comply with the Committee’s requests for documents related to the company’s “audit" of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona.