Tag: Senate

The nearly $1.5 trillion tax cut appears to lose revenue beyond the 10th year, running afoul of the rules that allow the GOP to advance the bill while avoiding a Democratic filibuster. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Orrin Hatch promises changes to tax bill to make corporate rate cut permanent

Joseph Lawler · November 13, 2017 9:06 pm

Senators detailed the kinds of questions they would see to ask President Trump's nominee. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Key Republican senators ready to quickly move Trump’s health secretary nominee

Kimberly Leonard · November 13, 2017 5:25 pm

From left, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser Gary Cohn, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speak at a news conference as work gets underway on the Senate's version of the GOP tax reform bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Next week: House, Senate move on tax reform

Susan Ferrechio · November 11, 2017 2:00 pm

The Senate measure, which was previewed earlier Thursday but not released until the night, shares the House version's name: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Republicans aim to advance $1.496 trillion tax cut through committee next week

Joseph Lawler · November 10, 2017 2:25 am

Republican senators, including Sen. David Perdue of Georgia (pictured), met Thursday to talk in a closed door meeting about the proposed tax plan, which faced immediate criticism for its proposal to slow down the corporate rate cut even before details were formally made public.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate Republicans balk at corporate tax cut delay

Susan Ferrechio · November 9, 2017 6:58 pm

House Republicans, such as Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., are under pressure to pass a complicated tax reform bill by year's end. Some, like Cole, believe if the legislation isn't pushed through, it could spell defeat for Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP election rout haunts tax reform push

Al Weaver, Susan Ferrechio · November 9, 2017 5:01 am

Senators urged passage of a bill on Obamacare as a way to lower premiums. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats seize on election results, Obamacare enrollment to urge bipartisan healthcare deal

Kimberly Leonard · November 8, 2017 9:02 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., right, and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., left, walk on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House, Senate lawmakers urge delay of defense bill over FDA concerns

Robert King · November 8, 2017 6:10 pm

Bit by bit, lobbyists will try to put carve-outs back into the bill. To the extent they are successful, Republicans will have to compromise in other areas. That could include settling for higher tax rates. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan’s moment: Tax talk is over, and tax legislating begins

Joseph Lawler · November 6, 2017 5:01 am

Law enforcement officials work the scene of a fatal shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Sutherland Springs church shooting is ‘heartbreaking,’ ‘devastating’: Lawmakers

Naomi Lim · November 5, 2017 9:25 pm

It will be a busy week for Republicans in both the House and Senate, with the lower chamber focused on pushing its tax reform agenda through Congress and the upper chamber focused on seating President Trump's Cabinet nominees. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP takes charge on taxes and judicial nominees

Susan Ferrechio · November 4, 2017 1:00 pm

Bono, who served in Congress for 15 years before she lost in 2012, said a male colleague made recurring harassing comments to her. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Four female lawmakers detail sexual harassment by male colleagues

Melissa Quinn · November 3, 2017 3:30 pm