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☆ Israeli Weapon Damaged Iranian Air Defenses Without Being Detected, Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Farnaz Fassihi | Ronen Bergman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Some Democrats are fine sending defensive weapons to Israel, but want to see some limits on offensive weapons, which could be used against civilians in Gaza. But progressive Democrats estimated that 40 to 60 members of their party may oppose it on the House floor on Saturday. The legislation would allocate $5 billion to Israel’s defense capabilities and $9 billion for “worldwide humanitarian aid,” including for civilians in Gaza. “To give Netanyahu more offensive weapons at this stage, I believe, is to condone the destruction of Gaza that we’ve seen in the last six months. But they see a “no” vote as part of a strategy to pressure Mr. Biden to condition aid and halt future offensive weapons transfers.

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☆ Live Updates: Muted Reactions to Israeli Strikes on Iran Hint at De-Escalation
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Alissa J. Rubin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

☆ Should the U.S. government pay reparations for slavery and its legacy?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

The poll found that 74% of Black Americans favor reparations compared to just 26% of white Americans. A divided America Views on whether the U.S. government should provide some form of reparations for slavery and its legacy are split along party and racial lines. They also say it’s wrong to have taxpayers finance reparations, given that no one alive today is responsible for slavery. In April 2021, Gohmert went on the attack by proposing an amendment calling for the Democratic Party to pay for reparations. In the slavery era, the Democratic Party supported slavery; the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, called for slavery’s restriction and eventually abolished it.

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☆ 33 Democrats urge ban on investor-state dispute provisions in all US trade deals
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( David Lawder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-RhoadesWASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday urged the U.S. Trade Representative and State Department to eliminate investor-state dispute settlement provisions from current and future trade deals and to intervene on behalf of Honduras against a U.S. company's nearly $11 billion claim against the country. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Trade Representative Katherine Tai seen by Reuters, 33 lawmakers said that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) systems in trade deals constitute a "problematic corporate handout" that violates countries' sovereignty and democracy rights. The Democrats signing the letter said the case could require impoverished Honduras to pay billions of taxpayer dollars to a company that has "weaponized" the dispute settlement provisions. The dispute settlement provisions had been a way to protect U.S. firms from abrupt changes in trading partners' government policies by providing recourse through arbitration. The letter cited Georgetown University research tallying $27.8 billion in ISDS settlement orders against Latin American governments, with Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico and Ecuador the worst hit.

☆ US declines to force lower price on cancer drug Xtandi
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. government will not force Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Astellas Pharma Inc (4503.T) to lower the price of their prostate cancer drug Xtandi using its emergency "march-in" authority, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Tuesday. Patient group the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment first filed a petition calling on the NIH to use its authority to lower the drug's price in March 2016. The NIH said in a letter made public on Tuesday that its analyses in response to the petition found the prostate cancer treatment was widely available. "NIH does not believe that use of the march-in authority would be an effective means of lowering the price of the drug," the letter said. Progressive lawmakers in the Democratic Party have been calling on President Joe Biden's administration to use its march-in authority to lower drug prices.

☆ It's pretty rare for Americans to claim negative income on their taxes like the Trumps did for 4 years between 2015 and 2020
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An IRS report shows it's not that common for taxpayers to report adjusted gross income below $1. In 2020, the total income was -$4,694,058 and adjusted gross income was -$4,795,757. Trump's tax return isn't the only one in 2020 that shows a negative adjusted gross income. The following chart shows how many individual income tax returns there were for tax year 2020 by adjusted gross income. In contrast, there were over 30 million returns with adjusted gross income from $50,000 to under $100,000 and just about 30 million returns with adjusted gross income of $30,000 to under $50,000.

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Tuesday to release partially redacted tax filings from former President Donald Trump and said tax authorities had failed to properly scrutinize his returns while he was in office. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to release a summary of Trump's tax returns between 2015 and 2021, the years when he was running for president and serving in the White House, panel members said. Committee chairman Richard Neal, a Democrat, said a redacted summary of Trump's tax returns would be released within days. Trump has said that he cannot release his tax returns because they were being examined by the IRS. Another House committee on Monday asked federal prosecutors to prosecute Trump for sparking the deadly Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted on Tuesday to release partially redacted tax filings from former President Donald Trump, which could lead to more unwelcome scrutiny for the former president as he mounts another White House bid. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to release a summary of Trump's tax returns between 2015 and 2021, the years when he was running for president and serving in the White House, panel members said. Like other committee Republicans, he voted against their release on the grounds that it could set a bad precedent. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstCandidates are not required by law to release their tax returns, but previous presidential hopefuls of both parties have voluntarily done so for several decades. Another House committee on Monday asked federal prosecutors to prosecute Trump for sparking the deadly Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

☆ House Democrats vote to make material related to Trump's personal tax returns public
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Warren Rojas | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The Democratic-majority House Ways and Means Committee voted to make materials related to Trump's tax returns public. Some of this was already revealed in 2020 when The New York Times obtained decades of Trump's tax information. "If this injustice can happen to President Trump, it can happen to all Americans without cause," Cheung wrote. US Treasury officials gave Neal Trump's tax filings for 2015-2020 in late November. Neal and other Democratic tax writers have been deliberating about how to handle Trump's tax documents for weeks.

☆ Lawmaker speaks about the investigation into Trump's tax returns
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) says that congressional investigators are currently going through former President Trump's tax returns and they may release some details to the public.

☆ House Democrats reviewing Trump's tax returns split into publish-everything and there-are-rules camps with GOP takeover looming
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After finally scoring Trump's tax records, House Democrats have to figure out what to do with them. "I want them all released," Ways and Means Committee member Bill Pascrell told MSNBC ahead of Neal's group-wide meeting. José Luis Villegas/AP"Democrats' relentless pursuit of President Trump's tax returns is nothing more than a partisan attack against a political opponent that serves no legitimate or legislative purpose," Buchanan wrote in an email to Insider. Ways and Means Committee member Dan Kildee said he was backing Neal's call in this case. And while he acknowledged they were racing against the clock, Kildee said Ways and Means Democrats would rise to the challenge.

☆ Democrats weigh options after Supreme Court decision on Trump taxes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"There is a way that we can forward those tax returns to the House, and the House can act on this. A Ways and Means Committee spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the panel's plans. Those two committees are among three in Congress whose chairs can receive individual tax returns upon request under federal law. "The Supreme Court has no idea what their inaction unleashes," Representative Kevin Brady, the top Ways and Means Republican, said in a statement. Committee members will consider what information related to Trump's tax returns can be made public when Congress returns to work next week.

☆ Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska is the latest member of Congress to violate a federal conflicts-of-interest law with improperly disclosed stock trades
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican from Alaska, was weeks late disclosing two stock sales. Sullivan's office told Insider that an investment manager was tardy informing the senator that the stock had been sold. Since 2021, 75 members of Congress have violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act's disclosure provisions. A personal financial disclosure filed on November 3, 2022, by Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican who represents Alaska. US SenateIn a statement to Insider, Sullivan spokesman Mike Reynard said that Sullivan wasn't aware of the sale of his stock until after a federal disclosure deadline had already passed.

☆ Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas is the latest member of Congress to violate a federal conflict-of-interest law
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat from Texas, was days late disclosing four stock purchases. Congress is actively debating whether to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks. I continue to hold the same seven individual stocks acquired long ago," Doggett said. A certified congressional disclosure from Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat from Texas, indicating he was days late reporting he purchased stock shares in four companies. "I am supportive of a ban on active trading of individual stocks," he said.

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