Senate — Daily Leader Remarks • Actions passed, declined
Senate sends veterans' toxic exposure bill to Biden's desk (S. 3373)
Senate defeats Rand Paul amendment clarifying war powers in NATO resolution (S.Amdt. 5191) • Senate approves NATO membership for Sweden and Finland amid Russia threat (Treaty Document 117-3)
Manchin votes with GOP to cancel Biden environmental permitting rule (S.J.Res. 55)
Foreign Policy
Pelosi on Taiwan trip: ‘We cannot stand by’ as China threatens ‘democracy itself’ • Pelosi arrived in Taiwan amid tensions with China, most-tracked flight in Flightradar24 history • Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Statement on Visit to Taiwan • Pelosi Defies China’s Bluster, Heralds ‘Taiwan’s Vibrant Democracy’, says US support for democracy in Taiwan 'remains ironclad', Pelosi: US will not abandon Taiwan, Solidarity with people of Taiwan more important than ever • Pelosi met with semiconductor leaders during Taiwan visit to tout chips bill (H.R. 4346) • Menendez: US can’t afford to repeat Ukraine mistake with Taiwan • White House National Security Spokesman Kirby on reported Pelosi trip to Taiwan: We shouldn't be intimidated by China's rhetoric, No 'public spat' between White House, Pelosi on Taiwan visit • McConnell defends Pelosi trip to Taiwan: ‘She has every right to go’ • McConnell, 25 GOP senators back Pelosi Taiwan trip • Pelosi courts controversy with Taiwan trip that’s personal to Speaker • trip ratchets up US-China tensions • China: Pelosi's trip 'gravely undermines peace and stability', sanctions Pelosi • Taiwan: Chinese military drills violate island's sovereignty • Pelosi punctuates Asia trump declaring US won't allow China to isolate Taiwan, visits Japan
Constitution
Manchin says Electoral Count Act reform would target ‘bad actors’ trying to overturn elections (S. 4573)
First Amendment
4 Reasons Why Senate Should Oppose Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. 8404, S. 4556)
Homeland Security
We knew the Biden border crisis was bad. We never knew it could get so much worse • Bipartisan group of senators introduce bill to expand Border Patrol, increase pay (S. 4775)
Tax Policy
It’s Not a Loophole Just Because Dems Don’t Like It
Today, about 20% of Highway Trust Fund monies are diverted to other purposes
Federal Spending
The House defense spending bill’s questionable priorities (H.R. 7900)
Earmarks in Senate bills favor small states, retiring senators
Senate appropriators want $4 billion for ships Navy didn’t seek
H.R. 5376
Sinema announces deal with Schumer on taxes and climate • Sinema’s tax tweaks: add stock buyback tax, scrap carried interest • Sinema Supports Revised Tax Bill • shields key tax incentive favored by supply-siders • Schumer defends dropping carried interest tax change to win over Sinema • Biden takes victory lap • Biden's big selling point? The IRS • Manchin-Schumer IRS funding boost will mean audits for middle class, GOP says • Democratic inflation bill would have little near-term effect on prices: CBO • Taxes Would Hit Both Rich and Poor Americans • Inflation Reduction Act Is Euphemism, False Advertising for Bigger Government, Higher Prices, devastation of the economy • bill said to put emission goals in ‘striking distance’ • Coal industry 'shocked and disheartened' • McConnell slams grants as open season for liberal climate groups • Electric cars, drug costs and more: 5 battles Democrats could lose on their marquee bill • Tax bill’s electric vehicle credit requirements—key components must be sourced from U.S. allies—are discouraging to some • Democrats have taken aim at the stock market's safety net by taxing buybacks, potentially another headwind for investors • Democrats Seek to Eliminate the Stock Buyback Advantage • 3 reasons why regulating stock buybacks is misguided: (1) stock buybacks devalue the company, (2) internal investment opportunities are not unlimited, (3) motivates companies to return value to shareholders by other means • Manchin-Schumer 15% tax on 'book income' was tried and ditched in 1980s, is still a bad idea • Progressives urge inclusion of uninsured in insulin proposal • Democrats Target Medicare Drug Spending to Shore Up ACA • AARP, Big Pharma locked in battle over price controls • package includes $4B for western drought resilience • Maher: 'Good to see' Democrats be 'bipartisan with themselves' • Manchin’s Reward for Backing Democrats’ Spending Bill Could Be Tossed • Democrats could see a bruising clash with Sanders, tough immigration votes • Parliamentarian approves energy and drug price provisions in Inflation Reduction Act • Senate rules official strikes part of Democrats' drug pricing measures
CBO Identifies the Biggest Fiscal Threat to Americans: the national debt
Monetary Policy
Bipartisan legislation would regulate cryptocurrencies through the CFTC (S. 4760)
Every US crypto exchange is under SEC investigation, Senate staffer says
How High Can Uncle Sam Afford Interest Rates to Rise?
Executive
DHS watchdog halted efforts to obtain missing text messages from Secret Service, Trump officials
House Democrats ask for review of US monkeypox response
Portman warns against overlap in government cyber leadership
Supreme Court
Democrats urge Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in college admissions (Cases: 20-1199, 21-707)
Justice
Bipartisan senators introduce bill to codify abortion (S. 4688) • Why one pro-Roe Democrat is still seeking bipartisanship on abortion • Warren won't back bipartisan abortion bill
Senate Democrats unveil legislation to protect abortionists (S. 4723)
Democratic lawmakers introduce bill to make abortion more accessible to women with disabilities (S. 4764)
Democratic senators introduce bill to protect federal worker rights (S. 4702)
Sen. Tim Scott: What the Left gets wrong about 'the black experience'
Commerce Policy
CHIPS is a missed opportunity for real security (H.R. 4346)
House Republican introduces new bill to boost small business startups (H.R. 8634)
Health Care Policy
What's in the Senate Democrats' long-awaited marijuana bill (S. 4591) • Green industry: Inside the big business of marijuana legalization lobbying
Technology Policy
Here's where anti-Big Tech legislation stands as time runs out for Congress to act
Senate and House Members Introduce PLAN for Broadband Act (S. 4767)
Education Policy
Six GOP senators ask Education Department about transgender Title IX changes (Proposed Rule, Comments due September 12, 2022, Heritage Action background, action form)
Congress
Privileged nominees taking longer to confirm: report
GOP takes issue with ‘sensitive information’ released in eviction report
Rep. Jackie Walorski, three others die in auto accident, in Indiana • Walorski's car crossed the road's center line, causing crash: Sheriff • information from Elkhart County Sheriff regarding crash • Tributes flow • Hill mourns • Biden 'shocked and saddened' • White House flags fly at half-staff • Funeral arrangements announced • successor to finish final weeks of late Indiana GOP congresswoman's term
Murkowski gets late Rep. Don Young's 900-pound totem pole in Capitol Hill office
Ethics committee finds no intentional violations by Rutherford in disclosure of stock trades
Testing Positive: Cornyn • Yarmuth
Committee Activity
Senate Hearing on Diversity in Diplomacy Fails to Get to Real Questions
Senate review blames deaths, illnesses on mistakes in organ transplant screening
Senate Judiciary Committee airs threats against elections workers
Van Hollen grills Biden envoy over investigation into Abu Akleh killing
Senate Judiciary Committee grills FBI director on violent crime
4 Takeaways From First Hearing on Gain-of-Function Research, COVID-19
US Senate Committee Holds Hearing for 3 Women Nominated to African Ambassador Posts
Senators to take up bill to expand security support to Taiwan amid high-stakes Pelosi visit
Oversight Committee subpoenas Smith & Wesson for information on assault-style weapons
Floor Outlook
Senate
Weekend work ahead • agenda on the line • climate agenda intact • Democrats race to prep sweeping budget bill • Senate sets up first vote Saturday on Schumer-Manchin deal • Scenarios for how the battle over the climate, tax and health policy bill will play out
Democratic leaders to take up environmental permitting reform for Manchin vote
Schumer says antitrust bill will be brought for a vote: “in the fall”
House of Representatives
House looks to take up climate, taxes, health care bill next Friday, after Senate passage
Pelosi on Taiwan trip: ‘We cannot stand by’ as China threatens ‘democracy itself’ • Pelosi arrived in Taiwan amid tensions with China, most-tracked flight in Flightradar24 history • Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Statement on Visit to Taiwan • Pelosi Defies China’s Bluster, Heralds ‘Taiwan’s Vibrant Democracy’, says US support for democracy in Taiwan 'remains ironclad', Pelosi: US will not abandon Taiwan, Solidarity with people of Taiwan more important than ever • Pelosi met with semiconductor leaders during Taiwan visit to tout chips bill (H.R. 4346) • Menendez: US can’t afford to repeat Ukraine mistake with Taiwan • White House National Security Spokesman Kirby on reported Pelosi trip to Taiwan: We shouldn't be intimidated by China's rhetoric, No 'public spat' between White House, Pelosi on Taiwan visit • McConnell defends Pelosi trip to Taiwan: ‘She has every right to go’ • McConnell, 25 GOP senators back Pelosi Taiwan trip • Pelosi courts controversy with Taiwan trip that’s personal to Speaker • trip ratchets up US-China tensions • China: Pelosi's trip 'gravely undermines peace and stability', sanctions Pelosi • Taiwan: Chinese military drills violate island's sovereignty • Pelosi punctuates Asia trump declaring US won't allow China to isolate Taiwan, visits Japan
Constitution
Manchin says Electoral Count Act reform would target ‘bad actors’ trying to overturn elections (S. 4573)
First Amendment
4 Reasons Why Senate Should Oppose Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. 8404, S. 4556)
Homeland Security
We knew the Biden border crisis was bad. We never knew it could get so much worse • Bipartisan group of senators introduce bill to expand Border Patrol, increase pay (S. 4775)
Tax Policy
It’s Not a Loophole Just Because Dems Don’t Like It
Today, about 20% of Highway Trust Fund monies are diverted to other purposes
Federal Spending
The House defense spending bill’s questionable priorities (H.R. 7900)
Earmarks in Senate bills favor small states, retiring senators
Senate appropriators want $4 billion for ships Navy didn’t seek
H.R. 5376
Sinema announces deal with Schumer on taxes and climate • Sinema’s tax tweaks: add stock buyback tax, scrap carried interest • Sinema Supports Revised Tax Bill • shields key tax incentive favored by supply-siders • Schumer defends dropping carried interest tax change to win over Sinema • Biden takes victory lap • Biden's big selling point? The IRS • Manchin-Schumer IRS funding boost will mean audits for middle class, GOP says • Democratic inflation bill would have little near-term effect on prices: CBO • Taxes Would Hit Both Rich and Poor Americans • Inflation Reduction Act Is Euphemism, False Advertising for Bigger Government, Higher Prices, devastation of the economy • bill said to put emission goals in ‘striking distance’ • Coal industry 'shocked and disheartened' • McConnell slams grants as open season for liberal climate groups • Electric cars, drug costs and more: 5 battles Democrats could lose on their marquee bill • Tax bill’s electric vehicle credit requirements—key components must be sourced from U.S. allies—are discouraging to some • Democrats have taken aim at the stock market's safety net by taxing buybacks, potentially another headwind for investors • Democrats Seek to Eliminate the Stock Buyback Advantage • 3 reasons why regulating stock buybacks is misguided: (1) stock buybacks devalue the company, (2) internal investment opportunities are not unlimited, (3) motivates companies to return value to shareholders by other means • Manchin-Schumer 15% tax on 'book income' was tried and ditched in 1980s, is still a bad idea • Progressives urge inclusion of uninsured in insulin proposal • Democrats Target Medicare Drug Spending to Shore Up ACA • AARP, Big Pharma locked in battle over price controls • package includes $4B for western drought resilience • Maher: 'Good to see' Democrats be 'bipartisan with themselves' • Manchin’s Reward for Backing Democrats’ Spending Bill Could Be Tossed • Democrats could see a bruising clash with Sanders, tough immigration votes • Parliamentarian approves energy and drug price provisions in Inflation Reduction Act • Senate rules official strikes part of Democrats' drug pricing measures
CBO Identifies the Biggest Fiscal Threat to Americans: the national debt
Monetary Policy
Bipartisan legislation would regulate cryptocurrencies through the CFTC (S. 4760)
Every US crypto exchange is under SEC investigation, Senate staffer says
How High Can Uncle Sam Afford Interest Rates to Rise?
Executive
DHS watchdog halted efforts to obtain missing text messages from Secret Service, Trump officials
House Democrats ask for review of US monkeypox response
Portman warns against overlap in government cyber leadership
Supreme Court
Democrats urge Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in college admissions (Cases: 20-1199, 21-707)
Justice
Bipartisan senators introduce bill to codify abortion (S. 4688) • Why one pro-Roe Democrat is still seeking bipartisanship on abortion • Warren won't back bipartisan abortion bill
Senate Democrats unveil legislation to protect abortionists (S. 4723)
Democratic lawmakers introduce bill to make abortion more accessible to women with disabilities (S. 4764)
Democratic senators introduce bill to protect federal worker rights (S. 4702)
Sen. Tim Scott: What the Left gets wrong about 'the black experience'
Commerce Policy
CHIPS is a missed opportunity for real security (H.R. 4346)
House Republican introduces new bill to boost small business startups (H.R. 8634)
Health Care Policy
What's in the Senate Democrats' long-awaited marijuana bill (S. 4591) • Green industry: Inside the big business of marijuana legalization lobbying
Technology Policy
Here's where anti-Big Tech legislation stands as time runs out for Congress to act
Senate and House Members Introduce PLAN for Broadband Act (S. 4767)
Education Policy
Six GOP senators ask Education Department about transgender Title IX changes (Proposed Rule, Comments due September 12, 2022, Heritage Action background, action form)
Congress
Privileged nominees taking longer to confirm: report
GOP takes issue with ‘sensitive information’ released in eviction report
Rep. Jackie Walorski, three others die in auto accident, in Indiana • Walorski's car crossed the road's center line, causing crash: Sheriff • information from Elkhart County Sheriff regarding crash • Tributes flow • Hill mourns • Biden 'shocked and saddened' • White House flags fly at half-staff • Funeral arrangements announced • successor to finish final weeks of late Indiana GOP congresswoman's term
Murkowski gets late Rep. Don Young's 900-pound totem pole in Capitol Hill office
Ethics committee finds no intentional violations by Rutherford in disclosure of stock trades
Testing Positive: Cornyn • Yarmuth
Committee Activity
Senate Hearing on Diversity in Diplomacy Fails to Get to Real Questions
Senate review blames deaths, illnesses on mistakes in organ transplant screening
Senate Judiciary Committee airs threats against elections workers
Van Hollen grills Biden envoy over investigation into Abu Akleh killing
Senate Judiciary Committee grills FBI director on violent crime
4 Takeaways From First Hearing on Gain-of-Function Research, COVID-19
US Senate Committee Holds Hearing for 3 Women Nominated to African Ambassador Posts
Senators to take up bill to expand security support to Taiwan amid high-stakes Pelosi visit
Oversight Committee subpoenas Smith & Wesson for information on assault-style weapons
Floor Outlook
Senate
Weekend work ahead • agenda on the line • climate agenda intact • Democrats race to prep sweeping budget bill • Senate sets up first vote Saturday on Schumer-Manchin deal • Scenarios for how the battle over the climate, tax and health policy bill will play out
Democratic leaders to take up environmental permitting reform for Manchin vote
Schumer says antitrust bill will be brought for a vote: “in the fall”
House of Representatives
House looks to take up climate, taxes, health care bill next Friday, after Senate passage
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