The Senate Approves The Homeland Bill: What Now?Jose Latour
So have some Democrats, who hold a slim majority in the Senate. Sens. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Alex Padilla of California, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Ron Wyden of Oregon support the bill, with Wyden calling for "a stop...
Any amendments to the bill during this process are also subject to being voted on. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives must agree on the final version of the bill before it can be sent to the President for approval.1In order to become law, a Senate bill must win majority a...
The U.S. Senate describes private bills, on the contrary, as those that affect only certain individuals or organizations. Such groups may include corporations or immigrants. In many cases, the aim of a private bill is to seek special relief or privilege, which is often counter to public law...
The Senate bill has more individual tax brackets than the House bill does, something the two chambers will have to work out in conference. The individual tax cuts are temporary, unlike tax cuts for businesses, which are permanent. The Senate bill includes these tax brackets: ...
Senate Bill 6, or “An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring” (CTDPA), went into effect July 1, 2023. The law also draws from Virginia and Colorado’s statutes, with a few departures. It applies to businesses that, during the preceding calendar year: Controlled or ...
Here are the six provisions that will determine whether the Senate's version of the tax bill is a winner or a loser for you: Larger standard deduction Like House Republicans,the SenateGOP contingent would also like to raise standard deductions, nearly doubling them to $24,000 for married cou...
The president argued— as Democrats have for two months now — that it would be better for the House to take up the Senate-passed bill waiting in its hopper. If Johnson did otherwise, Biden questioned whether the Senate could process it. ...
So, while this bill undoubtedly leaves something to be wanted, it’s too early to judge it a failure. If it forces ByteDance to divest, everybody in the West is better insulated from security threats real and partially imagined by Congress.
(TCJA)was a major overhaul of thetax code, signed into law by President Donald Trump on Jan. 1, 2018. The Senate passed TCJA on Dec. 2, 2017, by a party-line vote of 51 to 49. The House passed its version by a vote of 224 to 201.1No House Democrats supported the bill and 12...