Update 312: Economic Policy Implications of the Midterms and the 116th Congress The result of last week’s midterms will have important ramifications for economic policy during the 116th Congress. Democrats have taken the majority in the House and will take majority control of key committees setting the legislative agenda. More than 100 women were projected …
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Update 258 — Omnibus Situation: Last Stop Before Two-Week Recess As of this writing on Thursday afternoon, one more piece of Congressional business remains before members and staff can start a long and long-awaited recess. Once again, Congress confronts a deadline of midnight tomorrow to keep the federal government funded. But no one wants to …
Update 257 — Primary Recap: TX, IL Key Candidates, Races, and Results Last week’s primary elections in Texas and yesterday’s in Illinois mark a turning point in the year. Washington saw a major winter snowstorm on the first official day of spring. And there have been some surprises in the hinterland as primary season 2018 …
Update 241 • Coming Down the Legislative Track: A Preemptive Strike at Infrastructure in the House This past weekend, NEC chief Gary Cohn delivered a long-awaited outline of the administration’s plan to fix the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. The long-overdue plan calls for up to $200 billion in tax expenditures to attract $1 trillion in private infrastructure investment. …
Update 174 — Recess Reading Ex-Im: Rep. Garrett to Run the Bank? The relief of the recess will soon give way to the resumption of hostilities on the Hill. Those in the states and districts are seeing the hostilities up close. Much of the Congressional version of it is self-inflicted. Take the Export-Import Bank. Trump …
Yesterday, Senate Democrats unveiled a new, $1 trillion plan to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure plan, one they believe is a bolder and more productive approach to infrastructure than what Donald Trump has so far sketched out. Presented by Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and six other Senate Democrats, the plan aims to create more …
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Mike & Co., This Tuesday, Donald Trump announced his intention to seek to improve the state of American infrastructure with an investment of over half a trillion dollars, financed through a bond program. The lack of details stands in contrast with HRC’s highly developed infrastructure agenda, which features an investment of $275 billion, including an infrastructure bank and a …
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Mike & Co. — Tomorrow’s Michigan primary election may end up being “yugge” if it seriously opens up the possibility that Trump can put the state in play in November — “A normal Republican cannot think of bringing in Michigan,” said Trump — nothing any other GOP presidential candidate could do, now, or for the …
Mike & Co. — I hope everyone’s had a chance to reflect on the magnitude of Tuesday’s hard fought primary wins — with gratitude to those who toiled in the field. On Sunday night, the campaign debate turns to Flint, Michigan — to the town and the issues it has come to symbolize. The town’s …
Mike & Co. – One week ago, the House passed a bill that could alter and perhaps ease the way state and local infrastructure is financed in the capital markets, when HR.2209, a bill to “require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to treat certain municipal obligations as level 2A liquid assets, and for other purposes” was adopted by the House with …
