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Democrats on Wednesday broadly blasted a proposed Obamacare replacement bill after learning the federal government would lose about $400 million in lost tax revenue over the next decade due to a sweet break for health insurers.
Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., said that the tax break related to executive pay underscores the fact that the Republican replacement bill is "the beginning of a huge giveaway to the very, very wealthy," and the end of insurance coverage for millions of lower-income people.
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett said a GOP plan to repeal Obamacare will be reviewed by the Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees in the U.S. House on Wednesday.
The GOP bill that would potentially repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will be taken up by two U.S. House committees on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett said Monday.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Democrats urged Chairman Kevin Brady to refrain from holding a full committee markup of any legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act without conducting a single hearing or obtaining a score from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and any estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Tax Policy Subcommittee, issued the following statement:
Reaction to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress split along predictably partisan lines, with Republicans praising what they described as the president's optimistic agenda, and Democrats saying "talk is cheap."
The Trump Organization is looking to expand its luxury hotel brand into dozens of the nation's major cities because that's where the tourists and business travelers are.
But they're also where the strongest opposition to Trump is.
From liberal havens like San Francisco to red-state hubs like St. Louis and Dallas, local officials have been putting the president's namesake company on notice that it may not be welcome.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's proposal for a "historic" $54 billion increase in defense spending in his pending budget — while cutting heavily from foreign aid and agencies across the federal government — has initiated what promises to be fierce debate in Congress over slashing programs in favor of a large military buildup.
A budget blueprint sent to federal departments Monday aims to increase defense spending to $603 billion while cutting nondefense, so-called discretionary spending to $462 billion, said Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
By: Tony Plohetski, Nancy Flores, and Perla Arellano, Feb. 22, 2017
The information, compiled by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and presented late last week to several U.S. congressional officials, provides the most comprehensive data available about the national operation that sparked a furor in Austin, where 51 people were arrested.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) issued the following statement after 19 year-old Josue Romero was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Antonio:
The House Ways and Means Committee on a party-line vote Tuesday defeated an amendment by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, that would have used a little-known authority of the committee to secure and review in closed session President' Trump's tax returns.
As a candidate and now as president, Trump has broken with precedent by not releasing his tax returns.