Issues
The Affordable Care Act - commonly referred to as ObamaCare - is providing millions of Americans with the high-quality, affordable health insurance they need.
The Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2015, introduced on June 25, 2015 would close the carried interest loophole and ensure that income earned managing other people's money is taxed at the same ordinary income tax rates as that of the vast majority of Americans.
Bipartisan majorities in the House and the Senate have urged the Administration to include strong and enforceable currency obligations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which includes a number of former currency manipulators, such as Japan.
Since the debt limit was created in 1939, Congress has modified the law to prevent a default on the full faith and credit of the United States. But recently, House Republicans have increasingly chosen to flirt with default, rather than ensuring that all our bills are paid
After the GOP’s pursuit of a huge cut in the top tax rate was derailed last year, Republicans are changing the rules of congressional scorekeeping by requiring CBO and JCT to incorporate “dynamic scoring” into their official estimates of major legislation.
On January 20, 2015, then-Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin and Committee member Lloyd Doggett introduced the Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2015, which broadly follows the proposal laid out by the President in his FY2015 budget.
Bipartisan legislation passed the Senate in April, 2014 that would have extended the EUC program for part of 2014, while also fully offsetting the cost of that legislation, but the Republican leadership in the House refused to allow a vote on that measure.
Medicare has offered health benefits for senior citizens and people with disabilities. The Affordable Care Act builds on the program by investing in Medicare’s future, improving benefits, reducing costs for beneficiaries, and getting a better deal for taxpayers.
Social Security provides Americans with unique, all-in-one protection from birth to death. While they’re working, Americans pay into Social Security, and then Social Security’s earned benefits provide income for workers and their families when they need them.
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) believes we need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects working families, encourages economic growth and domestic job creation, and is