U.S. Department of Commerce
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The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Ways and Means Republicans ongoing aggressive oversight of the Biden Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) sent a letter today to Acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell demanding the agency provide the Committee with a copy of its soon to be completed plan on how it will allocate the $80 billion in funds Democrats provided in their Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s full committee markup of Energy and Commerce’s Authorization and Oversight Plan for the 118th Congress.
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News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today premiered a new daily data product: the Index of Economic Activity (IDEA). The index effectively combines 15 of the primary economic data series produced by the Census Bureau to yield a single time series as a weighted combination. IDEA will live at the top of the Census Bureau Briefing Room webpage at .
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News Release: Chairman Smith Op-Ed: For America’s economy to work, we need a working-class agenda.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Federal Reserve continued its interest rate increases at the fastest rate in 40 years - raising rates another 25 basis points, for a total of 4.5 percent, the eighth increase since March 2022 and cumulatively larger than the past 15 years combined...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing titled"Dependence on Foreign Adversaries: America’s Critical Minerals Crisis." Subcommittee Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)issued the following statement in response.
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News Release: Washington, DC - In another instance of President Biden violating his pledge not to use the newly supercharged IRS against workers earning less than $400,000 a year, the tax collection agency announced a new dragnet to ensure workers properly report their tips. The program, according to an IRS announcement,...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. -The House Committee on Ways and Means tomorrow will hold a hearing titled, “The Greatest Theft of Taxpayer Dollars: Unchecked Unemployment Fraud." The hearing will take place on Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 10:00 AM in Longworth 1100.
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News Release: Treasury Department Announces Puerto Rico to Receive up to $109 Million to Promote Small Business Growth and Entrepreneurship through President Biden’s American Rescue
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Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the Canadian CEO and founder of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, said in a recent tweet that regulation can benefit the crypto industry and ultimately lead to more mainstream adoption by providing guidance and confidence to both those who provide crypto services and those who use them.
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Chairman Smith: Biden Administration Cannot Override Congress’s Constitutional Tax-Writing AuthorityNews Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published guidance on February 2 regarding the treatment of tax credits and allocation of tax among countries within its global minimum tax project...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In response to the Biden Administration’s failure to provide timely accountings of the size, scope, and severity of pandemic fraud perpetrated on the American public, House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Galdo, the acting “Chief Pandemic Prosecutor," inviting him to testify at a Ways and Means committee hearing on unemployment insurance (UI) fraud on February 8, 2023.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) shined a spotlight today on how Democrats, at every turn, blocked investigations into the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history. In the new majority, Republicans are investigating what exactly is being done or not done to determine the size, scope, and severity of stolen unemployment insurance funds.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Biden did not let the facts get in the way of his speech Thursday in Springfield, VA. While Biden claimed the economy is growing strong, the latest report on economic growth reveals that the economy under his Administration’s policies has fallen short of expectations on seven...
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The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Release: Good afternoon, everyone. It’s wonderful to be back in Puerto Rico.
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News Release: PETERSBURG, WV - Today, at the first hearing of the Ways and Means Committee under a new Republican majority, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) spoke about how policymakers must put the interests of American workers first by hearing directly from them about their struggles and their ideas to improve the lives and livelihoods of their families and communities after two years of crisis under one-party Democrat rule.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rising energy prices, the cost of living crisis, and generous government benefits fueling a labor shortage are the major challenges facing workers and local business owners who testified before the first hearing of the House Committee on Ways and Means held in Petersburg, West Virginia.
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News Release: PETERSBURG, WV - Today, at the first hearing of the Ways and Means Committee under a new Republican majority, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) spoke about how the Committee and Congress must put the interests of American workers first by hearing directly from Americans about their struggles and their ideas to improve the lives and livelihoods of their families and communities after two years of crisis under one-party Democrat rule.