Report: House Dems Expand Businesses Eligible for Tax Breaks Under Stimulus

Another day. Another expansion of the Democrats’ stimulus proposal — and not in ways we might have anticipated.

The House Ways and Means Committee approved its portion of the $825 billion stimulus package Thursday afternoon, including $275 billion in tax cuts.

While the original bill would allow businesses to recover More…

No Major Health Reform in 2009?

That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the economic troubles facing the country — as well as “deferred maintenance” health care issues like the renewal of SCHIP — would push the larger More…

The Rangel Question

Well, House Democrats managed to get through the whole John Dingell/Henry Waxman scrum without too much fallout (or so it appears). But questions linger over how party leaders will handle the Charlie Rangel mess.