Tag: Senate

Many businesses including oil and gas majors, automakers, and big banks have endorsed a carbon tax.

White House shoots down carbon and value-added taxes

Joseph Lawler · April 4, 2017 10:49 pm

Senate GOP poised to go nuclear

Susan Crabtree · April 3, 2017 2:06 pm

Hatch declined to state a position on the border adjustment, saying he would need to see the House legislation and understand its effects. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Orrin Hatch: Republicans agree on 80 percent of tax reform issues

Joseph Lawler · March 30, 2017 10:54 pm

President Trump's pick to head the Labor Department, former assistant attorney general for civil rights Alexander Acosta, is heading toward a relatively easy confirmation when he gets a vote in the full Senate this month. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Senate committee advances Acosta as labor secretary

Sean Higgins · March 30, 2017 5:00 pm

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who authored the bill overturning the rules, earlier this month said they are "yet another example of the previous administration's preference for government solutions to every problem and its affinity for over-regulation and bureaucratic red tape," according to a release. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Senate overturns Labor regs on municipal savings plans

Susan Crabtree · March 30, 2017 2:41 pm

Sean Spicer suggested this week that Trump would lead the Republican effort to overhaul the tax code. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump heading for big struggle on tax reform

Joseph Lawler · March 30, 2017 4:01 am

"To accommodate senators' schedules, the committee will vote on Mr. Acosta's nomination tomorrow," said a committee source. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Senate committee to vote Thursday on Labor pick Acosta

Sean Higgins · March 29, 2017 8:42 pm

The legislation waives the individual mandate penalty for people living in an area with no Obamacare insurer. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Senate bill helps Obamacare customers with no options

Robert King · March 29, 2017 7:11 pm

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said he would be open to step aside and not run for re-election in 2018 if a candidate like Mitt Romney were to run for his position in his stead. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch willing to step aside for Mitt Romney

Daniel Chaitin · March 29, 2017 2:05 am

The process has been so twisted by Democrats, Hatch wrote, "We are now watching the confirmation process through the funhouse mirror." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Hatch: Democrats waging ‘scorched earth campaign’ against Gorsuch

Susan Ferrechio · March 27, 2017 2:30 pm

Acosta Coasting Toward Confirmation

Alice B. Lloyd · March 23, 2017 2:15 am

Supreme Court nominee rebuts major line of Democratic attack that he doesn't care about "the little guy." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gorsuch: ‘I’m not worried about large corporations … I’m worried about the ordinary American and sometimes the non-American’

Ryan Lovelace · March 22, 2017 3:44 pm