On The Hill

House Dems Release Infrastructure Bill Text   On Monday (Jun. 22), House Democrats released the text of their $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill. The legislation includes billions of dollars for modernizing the grid, clean water projects, and clean energy tax credits.   The bill would authorize funding for the development of energy storage technologies through investments…

Supreme Court, Steel   On Monday (Jun. 22), the Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by U.S. importers challenging the Trump administration’s national security-based tariffs on steel. President Trump imposed tariffs on steel imports in 2018, and the recent decision effectively ends any potential legal challenges and leaves the duties in place.  …

GREEN Act   On Thursday (Jun. 25), a group of House Democrats released clean energy tax legislation that would expand credits for a variety of technologies. The “GREEN Act of 2020” would extend the Production and Investment Tax Credits, 45Q credit for carbon capture, energy credit for offshore wind facilities, excise tax credit relating to…

Friday morning (Jun. 26), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the House will hear debate on ACA enhancement legislation on Monday (Jun. 29). The House will spend the rest of the week on the recently proposed infrastructure package, H.R. 2. The legislative process will be outlined in the Rules Committee on Monday.   Additionally, the…

Pelosi Announces Infrastructure Bill   On Thursday (Jun. 18), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other committee leaders announced a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package that would provide significant new funding for roads, bridges, highways, transit, clean energy, drinking water, and other priorities.   The “Moving Forward Act” would spend $300 billion on roads and bridges,…

House to Vote on the ‘Affordable Care Enhancement Act’   In a press conference held Thursday (Jun. 18), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signaled the House will take up their Affordable Care Act (ACA) improvement bill on June 29. H.R. 3, the drug pricing bill voted on earlier this year, may act as a ‘pay…

Lighthizer on Capitol Hill   U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer spent eight hours on Capitol Hill on Wednesday (Jun. 17) and testified in front of both the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees. Lighthizer laid out the administration’s vision on a variety of issues.[1]   Lighthizer made it clear that the U.S.…

Digital Tax   On Wednesday (Jun. 17), United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer confirmed the U.S. had pulled out of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) negotiations on an international digital services tax. In a letter sent June 12, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin informed a group of European finance ministers that discussions had…

LWCF   Early Friday morning (Jun. 12), the Senate voted 65-19 to advance S. 3422, the “Great American Outdoors Act.” The bill would provide $900 million for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and put $6.5 billion towards addressing the maintenance backlog in the Nation Park system.   The Senate will take three additional votes…

House Returns Early to Address Policing, Vote on ACA Changes   On Tuesday (Jun. 9), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) announced the House will come back June 25 and 26, pending committee action on the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) is leading the Senate’s efforts on police reform.   Following…