Tag: Kevin Brady

With unemployment low and heading toward levels not seen since the days of the dotcom bubble, the country needs more people off government programs and in the workforce, it is argued.

Trump tees up welfare reform

Joseph Lawler · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

The vote means the bill is now open to debate and unlimited amendments. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate votes to advance $1.4 trillion tax cut bill

Susan Ferrechio · November 29, 2017 10:54 pm

Sen. Bob Corker said he believes Republicans in the Senate are receptive to his idea, which would raise taxes or eliminate deductions if the tax cut bill increased the deficit. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans frown on Bob Corker’s tax trigger

Susan Ferrechio · November 29, 2017 5:40 pm

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., followed at right by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., walks past boxes of petitions supporting the Republican tax reform bill that is set for a vote later this week as he arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes tax reform, puts pressure on Senate

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2017 6:48 pm

"We've got to get on with keeping our promise, and one of the chief promises we made when we ran for office in 2016 was that we would do tax reform and tax cuts for families, for people, and so we've got to get on with that," House Speaker Paul Ryan said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans have tax reform in the bag

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2017 5:01 am

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee added that House Republican leaders were optimistic about convincing holdouts to support the proposal. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Kevin Brady: House Republicans have the votes to pass tax plan

Naomi Lim · November 15, 2017 7:33 pm

Although a number of problems could crop up, as of the start of the week Republicans were on track to throw a bill together and put it on President Trump's desk by the end of the year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House, Senate GOP want to pass tax bills, worry about differences later

Joseph Lawler · November 14, 2017 1:51 am

"[President Trump's] regular conversations with me tell me he likes the direction we are going in a big way," Brady said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Kevin Brady: Trump likes the direction of the House tax plan ‘in a big way’

Naomi Lim · November 12, 2017 3:39 pm

House GOP Restores Adoption Tax Credit After Backlash

John McCormack · November 9, 2017 9:04 pm

"Americans deserve a new tax code for a new era of property, and today we deliver," said Kevin Brady. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP tax cuts set for final House vote next week

Joseph Lawler · November 9, 2017 8:41 pm

The amendment from Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady also would change the rules relating to the taxation of international business income. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP will put adoption credit in bill, sweeten small business cut

Joseph Lawler · November 9, 2017 7:11 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, says there will be last-minute changes to the tax reform bill to bring it into compliance with Senate rules. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans plan last-minute changes to bill to lower tax cut to $1.5 trillion

Joseph Lawler · November 9, 2017 12:12 am