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May 9, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: House and Senate Debate Transportation

Fourteen senators and 33 representatives began meeting yesterday to attempt to hammer out a compromise between two versions of the transportation spending bill (Reuters). Politico discusses the major…

A highway construction worker is engulfed in a cloud of dust as he works in Royse City, Texas in July 2011. (Mike Stone/Courtesy Reuters)

April 11, 2014

The Senate Torture Report and Investigative Journalism

Today, Sen. Diane Feinstein and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the chair and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), published an op-ed in the Washington Post, “Why the Senate Repo…

April 17, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Senate Stalls Buffett Rule

The Senate failed to muster the sixty votes necessary to advance the debate on the proposed “Buffett Rule” (TheHill). The mostly party line 51-45 vote comes after the Obama administration stepped up …

President Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to Warren Buffet at a White House ceremony on February 15, 2011. (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters)

December 13, 2017

United States
 A Quick Word on the (Lack of) Revenue From the Senate’s Proposed International Tax Reform

The Joint Committee on Tax has scored the Senate’s proposed international tax reform. I haven’t seen any reporting indicating that the conference committee has significantly changed these provisio…

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April 26, 2024

Digital Policy
Cyber Week in Review: April 26, 2024

Biden signs FISA reforms; House passes bill to ban government from buying bulk data; Biden signs TikTok ban; Chinese government orders Meta-owned apps removed from App Store; UnitedHealth Group provi…

TikTok logo is placed on the U.S. and Chinese flags in this illustration.