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• Ethics probes saddle Dems in 2010 (Politico via Yahoo! News)

  
  Debt Consolidation Blog — Authority: 144
  The House ethics committee investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is likely to extend well into 2010, according to sources familiar with the probe, meaning that the fate of the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee could become a major political issue for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and ...
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• Squeals From Private Equity

  
  DealBook — Authority: 765
  Floyd Norris writes that private equity partners earn money from their labor, by investing other peoples money. But they are outraged at the idea they should pay the same tax rates as the rest of us.
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• Ways and Means releases tariff bill database

  
  Real Time Investigations with Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy — Authority: 516
  Last week, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade released a new resource page on miscellaneous tariff bills, which are measures introduced by members of Congress that cut taxes on specific imported goods saving money for a limited number of beneficiaries (usually just one). The subcommittee made an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some tax credits will live and some will die

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 154
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Shortly after the film tax credit scandal broke in September, Governor Chet Culver promised a "comprehensive review" of all tax credits . On Thursday we learned more about how this review will be conducted. Recommendations are likely before the ...
  4 weeks ago

• PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 136
  Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land ...
  4 weeks ago

• The GOP Flip-Flop on the Doc Fix

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  The majority of House Republicans opposed the Democrats’ $210 billion physician payment bill--which passed this afternoon on a 243-183 vote--accusing the legislation of increasing the deficit by relying on federal borrowing through Medicare to pay for itself.  The “doc fix”--which will prevent steep expected ...
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• Congress Asks GAO To Track Drug Pricing

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 528
  In the wake of reports that drugmakers raised prices by as much as 9 percent, on average, this year, the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a report on recent trends in prescription drug pricing. The letter also requests that GAO ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dems Want GAO to Examine Skyrocketing Prescription Prices

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  On Monday, The New York Times ran a damning story detailing how the nation’s drug makers are hiking their prices ahead of the reform laws winding their way through Congress. The very next day, some powerful House Democrats called for a closer look, asking the Government Accountability Office to examine the drug ...
  4 weeks ago

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