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- New Joint Bicameral Staff Report Reveals Big Oil's Campaign of Climate Denial https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/new-joint-bicameral-staff-report-reveals-big-oils-campaign-of-climate-denial-disinformation-and-doublespeak/ 2 comments
- The 115th Congress Republican Tax Bill for 2018 [pdf] https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/TAX%20SUBSTITUTE.pdf 2 comments
- New U.S. Senate Report Reveals Climate Change-Driven Insurance Crisis is Spreading https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/new-data-reveal-climate-change-driven-insurance-crisis-is-spreading 6 comments climate
- Trump’s Tariffs Would Boost Inflation, Shrink the Economy, CBO Finds https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/trumps-tariffs-would-boost-inflation-shrink-the-economy-cbo-finds 54 comments politics
- Budget Committee Releases Sweeping New Report Highlighting Economic, Budgetary Costs of Climate Change https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/budget-committee-releases-sweeping-new-report-highlighting-economic-budgetary-costs-of-climate-change 11 comments politics
- Extending Trump’s Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Will Shrink the Economy, CBO Finds | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/extending-trumps-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-will-shrink-the-economy-cbo-finds 12 comments politics
- Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fossil_fuel_report1.pdf 8 comments climate
- SEN. WHITEHOUSE ON FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES: “WE ARE SUBSIDIZING THE DANGER” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/sen-whitehouse-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-we-are-subsidizing-the-danger- 5 comments climate
- Whitehouse: Republicans’ fixation on tax cuts for billionaires is driving up the national debt https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/whitehouse-republicans-fixation-on-tax-cuts-for-billionaires-is-driving-up-the-national-debt#:~:text=Tax%20giveaways%20for%20the%20wealthy,to%2DGDP%20ratio%20since%202001. 281 comments politics
- IRS Cuts to Add $19 Billion to Deficit, CBO finds https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/irs-cuts-to-add-19-billion-to-deficit-cbo-finds 66 comments politics
- Warrior Met and Wall Street Greed: What Corporate Raiders are Doing to Workers and Consumers | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/warrior-met-and-wall-street-greed-what-corporate-raiders-are-doing-to-workers-and-consumers 3 comments politics
- Waste, Fraud, Cost Overruns, and Auditing at the Pentagon https://www.budget.senate.gov/hearings/waste-fraud-cost-overruns-and-auditing-at-the-pentagon 12 comments politics
- Incoming Chairman Sanders Introduces Budget Resolution | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/incoming-chairman-sanders-introduces-budget-resolution 7 comments politics
- Report: If Not for Republican Policies, the Federal Government Would Be Running a Surplus https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/report-if-not-for-republican-policies-the-federal-government-would-be-running-a-surplus 2913 comments politics
- Parliamentarian Determines Three Provisions in Republican Tax Bill Are Impermissible https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/parliamentarian-determines-three-provisions-in-republican-tax-bill-are-impermissible 72 comments politics
- The Skinny Repeal Is Here Mitch McConnell is now on the floor introducing what will be formally called “the Health Care Freedom Act.” https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/healthcarefreedomact.pdf 41 comments politics
- Background on the Byrd Rule Decisions https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/background%20on%20byrd%20rule%20decisions_7.21%5B1%5D.pdf 18 comments politics
- H. R. 1628 (American Health Care Act) full text https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/senatehealthcare.pdf 155 comments politics
- Discussion Draft - Senate Republican Health Care Bill | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget https://www.budget.senate.gov/bettercare 7 comments politics
- Senate Republicans, for whom a $19 Trillion Federal debt load was anathema under Obama, nearly unanimously passed this budget resolution authorizing increasing the Federal debt to $29 Trillion by 2026. Page six, line three. https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/hen17065.pdf 190 comments politics
- Three of Donald Trump's appointments -- Bannon, Flynn, Pompeo - have disparaged Muslims. The fourth which was announced today, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), criticized distribution of books about Islam -- http://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/sessions-investigates-grant-process-questionable-use-of-funds-at-national-humanities-endowment 9 comments politics
- Top Economists Are Backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on Establishing a $15 an Hour Minimum Wage http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/blog?id=d388e874-ab05-412d-b5ff-266659accef5 7 comments economy
- 210 economists petition US Senate in favor of $15/hr minimum wage by 2020. [warning: pdf] http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/_cache/files/89efe4b6-8934-4375-bc96-758fcc791622/minimum-wage-petition-july-21.pdf 35 comments economy
- Top Economists Are Backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on Establishing a $15 Minimum Wage. http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/blog?id=d388e874-ab05-412d-b5ff-266659accef5 211 comments politics
- Top Economists Are Backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on Establishing a $15 an Hour Minimum Wage http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/2015/7/top-economists-are-backing-sen-bernie-sanders-on-establishing-a-15-an-hour-minimum-wage 5 comments politics
- Republican Budget: A Massive Transfer of Wealth from the Middle Class to Millionaires and Billionaires http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/_cache/files/ca28afb2-456a-440e-a2ba-699587c984b4/the-republican-budget-a-massive-transfer-of-wealth-from-the-middle-class-to-millionaires-and-billionaires.pdf 51 comments politics
- New Bill to Curb Tax Dodging Corporations http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/2015/4/new-bill-to-curb-tax-dodging-corporations 42 comments politics
- U.S. Senate Agrees to Continue to Spend 2% per GDP on Infrastructure, While China Spends 9% of its GDP on Infrastructure http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/repairing-our-infrastructure 6 comments worldnews
- In Detailed Report, Sen. Sanders Shows How Republican Budget Plan Is Terrible For Families http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/index.cfm/2015/3/in-detailed-report-sen-sanders-shows-how-republican-budget-plan-is-terrible-for-families 15 comments politics
- Robin Hood in Reverse: How the Republican Budget Plan is a Gift to the Billionaire Class and Will Hurt the Middle Class, Seniors, and the Environment - A Report by Bernie Sander http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/_cache/files/c0ac2507-0cf5-47c6-a303-54457c82e666/enzi-budget-reaction.pdf 27 comments politics
- Legalized Tax Fraud: How Top US Corporations Continue to Profit Through Offshore Tax Havens http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/public/_cache/files/3eaf7d6c-a87e-49cc-aa1a-be496f6c213e/legalized-tax-fraud.pdf 19 comments politics
- Medicare is dying, The law says it needs to be addressed, yet this administration won't. http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/budget-background?id=cc98e975-0caa-4a8c-a7bd-2ea2fb87bc4b 3 comments politics