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Brady on July Jobs Report: Movement on Closing Biden Jobs Gap Boosted by Ending Unemployment Bonuses

News Release: Brady on July Jobs Report: Movement on Closing Biden Jobs Gap Boosted by Ending Unemployment Bonuses.


Wyden, Casey Unveil Comprehensive Bill to Improve Nursing Homes for Residents and Workers

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senate Aging Committee Chairman Bob Casey, D-Pa., along with Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, today introduced legislation to update federal nursing home policy to improve quality of care and oversight, after the COVID-19 pandemic took the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents and workers in nursing homes.


Analysis: Biden Tax Hikes Hit Middle Class

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Ways and Means top Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) released an analysis showing that proposed corporate tax hikes would fall directly on middle-class Americans. The analysis, performed...


News Release: Unfilled Jobs Crushing Main Street Hits New Record Under Biden’s Economic Policies.


Democrats Choose Big Government over Americans’ Privacy

News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement after Democrats voted down his amendment to prevent the undue monitoring and reporting of sensitive financial information on law-abiding Americans to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Instead, Democrats adopted an amendment to provide even more latitude to the IRS in determining which Americans to monitor.


Crapo Files Amendment to Protect Americans’ Privacy from Intrusive IRS Reporting Regime

News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) filed an amendment to the Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend legislation to prevent the monitoring and reporting of sensitive American taxpayer information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by financial institutions.


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 July 25 - July 31, 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.


Scalise: Cuomo Must Release Data About Nursing Home Deaths Before He Leaves Office

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement in response to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that he intends to resign from office...


News Release: WASHINGTON - In an op-ed for The Hill, former Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and member of Ways and Means Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) warns against President Biden’s global minimum tax that makes it better to be a foreign worker or company than an American worker or company...


News Release: CNN: Analysis Shows Bidenflation Is Hitting Workers in Higher Prices, Lower Wages.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) today joined David Asman on Fox Business to warn that Democrats voting for President Biden’s $5 trillion economic agenda, will increase taxes on working families and small businesses, while making America less competitive.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after Ways and Means Committee Member Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI) announced that he will retire at the end of the 117th Congress...


Middle Class Families Brace for President Biden’s Tax Hikes

News Release: Middle Class Families Brace for President Biden’s Tax Hikes.


News Release: New Study Disproves Biden’s Claims on Tax Reform, Shows Tax Cuts Across the Board.


Crapo, Grassley Question IRS Responsiveness over Data Breach

News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, asked Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig for an update on the recent major potential data leak at the IRS, questioning whether the IRS has fulfilled its legal requirements under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) of 2014.


E&C Republican Leaders Question NIH’s Handling of Sexual Harassment Complaints

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter Monday to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins regarding the agency’s handling of sexual harassment complaints about an oncologist who served in leadership roles on NIH committees.


Wyden Statement on Budget Resolution

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the budget resolution...


Chair Lynch, Ranking Member Grothman Demand DOD Provide Investigative Report on Terrorist Attack on Manda Bay Airfield

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, and Rep. Glenn Grothman, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III demanding information about the January 5, 2020, terrorist attack against U.S. personnel...


Grothman, Lynch Demand DOD Provide Investigative Report on Terrorist Attack on Manda Bay Airfield

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.), the Chairman of the Subcommittee, sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III demanding information about the January 5, 2020, terrorist attack against...


Crapo Blasts Democrats’ Runaway Spending and Job-Killing Tax Hike Proposals

News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate Floor today on the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reckless tax-and-spending bill. Senator Crapo serves as the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, with jurisdiction...