US Senate Budget Committee Resolution Provides Two-Year Extension of 2009 Estate Tax LevelsPhilip S. English
Senate leaders open doors to ANWR drilling U.S.Senate leaders are intensifying pressure to allow for oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as part of the Senate's 2005-2006 budget.Senate Budget Committee Chair Judd Gregg,R-N.H.,told Reuters there is a "reasonab... NPN...
Structure The Senate uses committees (and their subcommittees) for a variety of purposes, including the review of bills and the oversight of the executive branch. Formally, the whole Senate appoints committee members. In practice, however, the choice of members is made by the political parties....
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a bipartisan federal agency that analyzes the economy for the U.S. Congress. It also assists the House and Senate Budget Committees. It reviews the president's annual budget. It also reports on the deficit impact of every important piece of legislation...
A US Senate Defense Appropriations Committee voices concern and scepticism over the Department of the Navy's submarine construction plans.
US Congress passes stopgap bill to extend gov't funding The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a short-term spending bill that would extend government funding until March, a few hours after the bill was approved by...
Parts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA 20229) could be repealed if the newly-elected Republicans come under market-driven pressure to quickly reduce the budget deficit. Changes to the IRA would be straight-forward especially if the Republicans win the Senate, keep the House of Representatives...
Sen. John Kennedy, member of the Senate Banking Committee Right now, we have thedouble whammy of much higher interest rates and the commercial real estate market going through a shock post-Covid. So I don’t think we can presume that... we’re going to be able to simply glide t...
"We know that a 7.25-dollar federal minimum wage is insane. It is a starvation wage, and we've got to raise it to at least 15 dollars an hour over the next several years," Bernie Sanders, who serves as Senate Budget Committee chairman, said in a recent video. ...