Congress House Ways and Means Committee. Prospects for the majority party on Ways and Means; Opportunity for fifty-five Democratic vacancies on "select" standing committees; Impact of a loss of nine Democratic seats in the Sen...
The Ways and Means Committee is a standing committee of the House of Representatives. It has the exclusive power to study bills for raising revenue. It also considers the problems concerning taxes and tariffs. In simple language, its work is to explore the sources of money for the expenditures...
The Supreme Court ordered the handover of former President Trump’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. Last month, Chief Justice John Roberts granted a stay, temporarily blocking the former president from having to turn over his tax records to Democrats on the committee. Trump...
Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, formally requested earlier this month from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) six years' worth of the president's personal and business tax returns. However, the Treasury Department, which oversees the IRS, has said it...
Mnuchin also urged the House Ways and Means Committee to pass the debt limit legislation as a bill without controversial additions, such as spending cuts sought by conservatives, that could complicate its approval. "We can all discuss how we cut spending in the future and how we deal with the...
Lawrence Summers, U.S. Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, said on Twitter on Tuesday that it would be "lawless contempt" if the House Ways and Means Committee did not receive Trump's tax returns by the deadline. Trump used the excuse of an IRS audit since the 2016 presidentia...
The House Ways and Means Committee on Friday advanced measures including an expansion in Medicare coverage and help for workers hurt by international trade as the key panel, along with others, continue to flesh out major components of a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending bill. ...
Ryan was Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee during the 2012 presidential campaign. Since January, he served as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and previously served as chairman of the House Budget Committee. What is Boehner’s biggest regret?
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced last week that his Committee is planning to release a tax-reform “blueprint” this summer. Additionally, Members of the House and Senate have stirred over international tax reform in the wake of recent corporate mergers. While...
"The escalation of trade tensions with China could result in harm to all our member companies, member farms, their workers, and their consumers," these industry associations said in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and Ranking Member Richard Neal, released by the...