By: Kellie Meyer CLICK HERE or above to watch interview. Students from Sam Houston State University honored their namesake Tuesday night. It has been a great experience to know that our most celebrated state hero will now be honored by hundreds of Americans," Brian Aldaco a senior at Sam Houston State University said. The bust of General Sam Houston, an accomplished Texas politician, was brought from Huntsville, Texas to its’ new home in Washington D.C. The Sam Houston Museum Director helped get...
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Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) of the House Ways & Means Committee promised “a tax code built for growth” Monday, with steep reductions in both business and personal rates and a dramatically simpler system that will amount to the most substantial reform since the Reagan Administration’s landmark legislation of 1986. “This is a once in a generation opportunity,” Brady told SIFMA members Monday, adding that the Senate’s Oct. 9 passage of a budget resolution – which the House plans to take up shortly ...
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By James Arkin RCP Staff Rep. Kevin Brady, the chairman of the tax writing committee in the House, said Tuesday the odds are "very good" Congress will send tax legislation to President Trump's desk by the end of the year, but he declined to address details of the package ahead of a final vote this week on the budget. Brady, at an event hosted by RealClearPolitics, said he will announce a timeline for the release and mark-up of the GOP’s tax legislation after the House passes the Senate's versio...
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By: U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady Texans in the U.S. House of Representatives secured another $15 billion in disaster funds for Lone Star state victims of Hurricane Harvey. The emergency funding – the largest of three recovery bills approved by Congress – addresses the immediate needs of Texas families and communities by keeping FEMA and federal flood insurance programs from running out of money in the coming weeks. The bill includes $11 billion to pay anticipated claims for flood insurance for T...
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By: Gen. John Kelly From a Nov. 13, 2010, speech by then-Lt. Gen. John Kelly to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis, describing a 2008 suicide bombing in Iraq that killed two Marines, Cpl. Jonathan Yale, 22, and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, 20. Gen. Kelly’s son, Second Lt. Robert Kelly, 29, was killed in action in Afghanistan Nov. 9, 2010: What we didn’t know at the time, and only learned a couple of days later after I wrote a summary and submitted both Yale and Haerter for posthumous Navy Crosses,...
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By James Arkin RCP Staff Senate Republicans passed a budget resolution Thursday evening, clearing a significant hurdle and setting up the process to consider tax legislation later this year. As expected, the approval margin was narrow, 51-49, with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and all Democrats voting against the measure. Though the budget resolution does not become law, it is a critical step in GOP plans to overhaul the tax code this year. It sets up the process known as reconciliation, by which Repu...
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Today, the Senate passed its version of the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution, a key step toward paving the runway for the Ways and Means Committee to advance tax reform legislation. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Senate’s vote: “Senators who voted for this budget just took a major step towards delivering on our tax reform promise to the American people. I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the Capi...
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By Sandy Fitzgerald There is a "very clear possibility" that the House could pass its budget next week and clear the way for tax reform legislation to be brought to a vote by Thanksgiving, putting a bill on President Donald Trump's desk by the end of the year, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said Friday. "Our chairman worked with the Senate budget people on the bill they voted on last night, making sure we had common ground in this," the Texas Republican told Fox News' "Ameri...
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US Competitiveness Unleashed: The GOP Tax Strategy By: Kevin Price Today’s outdated and uncompetitive U.S. tax code forces American businesses and workers to compete with one hand tied behind their backs. This hurts our economy and drives good-paying American jobs overseas. Here’s how our unified framework for tax reform will unleash American competitiveness and make our nation a 21st century magnet for job creation, investment, and innovation: Recently Kevin Brady, (R-TX) Chairman of the powerf...
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He's one of the top architects of tax reform; Woodlands Congressman Kevin Brady - who chairs the House Ways & Means Committee - talked about how his committee wants to "think fresh" about maintaining incentives while simplifying the tax code. "Keeping what we have is not an option. We can't afford to continue this slow growth status quo and the broken tax code that has perpetuated much of it." During an appearance Wednesday at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Brady said ...
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