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Congressional Climate Bill Tracking
S. 1177 – Every Child Achieves Act of 2015
H.R. 2646 – Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015
S. 1146 – Healthy School Meals Flexibility Act
H.R. 612 – To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.
H.R. 467 – STEM Opportunities Act of 2015
H.R. 2775 – Remote Transaction Parity Act of 2015
S. 191 – Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce Act of 2015
S. 108 – Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency Act of 2015
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Video of the Day
What Joe Biden’s Decision Really Comes Down To | Chuck’s Take
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Today’s Hill Action
Senate Floor Schedule
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Committee Hearings
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House Floor Schedule
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Committee Hearings
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EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Europe’s folly
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Clean Power Plan (CPP) to reduce
carbon dioxide pulls a colossally damaging and futile national energy plan out of
a bureaucrat’s hat. Who needs congressional authorization by law to dismember the
engineering marvel that is our national electric power system? The EPA “architects”
may have lots of letters behind their names, but their federal plan to overhaul
the U.S. electric “machine,” as the agency now calls it, belies fundamental physical
and economic energy realities.
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The Obamacare ‘Fix’ Most Likely To Pass This Congress
August 31, 2015 Legislation overturning the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of
the small-group insurance market is likely to get a look this fall, according to
multiple sources on and off Capitol Hill, and it may be the Obamacare “fix” with
the best chance of becoming law.
All the usual caveats apply: Republicans would have to convince the rank-and-file
to accept a smaller-scale change to the law while waiting for full repeal. Democrats
must be willing to agree to any change at all. Nothing involving Obamacare comes
easy.
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‘Cadillac tax’ could wreck popular medical accounts
A popular middle class tax benefit could become one of the first casualties of the
Affordable Care Act’s so-called Cadillac tax, affecting millions of voters.
Flexible spending accounts, which allow people to save their own money tax free
for everything from doctor’s co-pays to eyeglasses, may vanish in coming years as
companies scramble to avoid the law’s 40 percent levy on pricey health care benefits.
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Lobbyit.com
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