Congress is set to receive a report on how the IRS can streamline the tax filing process after lobbyists for Intuit bundled millions for the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm.
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Democrats’ Debt Ceiling Debacle
For some reason the party decided to hand the Republican House majority a live economic grenade.
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How Chuck Schumer Deep-Sixed the Tech Antitrust Bills
A full timeline of the bills’ failure reveals the Senate majority leader’s heavy hand.
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Democrats Frittered Away the Lame-Duck Session
A lackadaisical approach led to failure for numerous bipartisan bills, and kept alive Republican goals to take the debt limit hostage in 2023.
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Reconciliation Is Available to End Debt Limit Hostage-Taking
With the GOP likely to take over the House, Democrats can use the lame duck to effectively eliminate the debt limit and the leverage Republicans would wield.
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The House Democratic Leadership Race
Do Democrats really want their next leader to be compromised and corporate?
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Permitting Reform Is a Decoy for Ramping Up Gas
A new Manchin-Schumer deal is being marketed as a clean-energy hack, but it’s mostly about gas exports.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Biggest Permitting Reform Would Be More Money
Changes to permitting rules pale in comparison to actually funding the agencies that carry those reviews out.
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Senate Democrats Take a Run at Messing Up Same-Sex Marriage Wedge Issue
Today on TAP: Linking same-sex marriage codification to a government funding bill draws mass opposition.
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The September Issues
Congress still has some work to do before the midterms.