The longtime Texas congressman was the lead author of the first overhaul of the tax code in three decades, saving the average Texan $1,670.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, right, acknowledges President Donald Trump, as he speaks during a passage of the tax bill event on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017. WASHINGTON — Like every chairman who has led the Ways & Means Committee — often called the most powerful force
He has played in every congressional baseball game for the last 25 years, going into his final game with a .360 batting average and three MVP titles under his belt. He was starting second baseman Thursday night as the Republicans beat the Democrats 10-0. “Calling it transactional behavior makes it sound bad, but this is where you’re supposed to trade with people, you’re supposed to compromise, and that is facilitated by a certain level of collegiality. Things like a baseball game,” Henson said. “That model has been increasingly demonized by what you might think of as the no-compromise wing of the Republican party.”
Neal said mutual respect is in short supply, and many members have forgotten that “social media posts are not governance.”“My experience is that partisanship ebbs and flows. It can be harsh for a period — and it has been this past year and a half,” he said. “Those dark clouds don’t always last, and I’m convinced that Congress at its heart is more bipartisan than not, that many of the best solutions are reached through common ground.
Experts, however, say its real effects remain unclear, largely because the pandemic hit so soon after it went into effect.Job growth and wages were already rising before the tax law went into place, and didn’t appear to be significantly impacted in the two years after, said Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center
“It’s not just that you pass it in committee, you have to work with the entire conference,” McCarthy said. “No matter what the member asked for, he would listen to she or he and he would say, ‘That was a very good point. Let me see if I can work it out.’
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