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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held its annual Labor Day press briefing with two of its analysts to discuss economic and workplace issues facing U.S. businesses. J.D. Foster, chief economist a…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held its annual Labor Day briefing to discuss issues impacting businesses, the labor force and the overall economy. Some of the topics included tax reform legisl…

Policy experts talked about the economic implications of proposed tax plans from President Trump and House Republicans. The speakers generally agreed tax code should be revised, and that the…

Two U.S. Chamber of Commerce economic experts spoke at the business federation’s annual Labor Day briefing on economic and workplace issues. Randel Johnson said the chamber would likely chal…

Witnesses testified on the history of the national debt limit, negotiations between past Congresses and presidents to raise the limit, and executive branch constitutional options when the de…

Participants spoke to reporters about tax policy and federal spending levels. They also answered questions from reporters.

Witnesses testified about efforts to create job growth. They also talked about the president’s jobs proposal before Congress, proposed tax reforms, enhancing federal revenues, and infrastruc…

Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) and others spoke about the future of U.S. tax policy and their opposition to the expiration of any of the tax cuts passed by the George W. Bush administration. He a…

Participants spoke about the state of the global economy and key issues to be discussed at an upcoming G-20 meeting in London. Among the issues addressed were a common regulatory framework t…

The guests debated House Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel’s (D-NY) tax reform proposals, including tax relief for middle-income families, and the alternate minimum tax. They respo…

House Majority Leader Representative Dick Armey (R-Texas) moderated a meeting of economic experts who talked about tax reform and simplification. Among the issues they addressed were the via…

Participants talked about how to use the budget surplus. At issue was an appropriate method to provide tax cuts, how to save Social Security, and how to use some of the surplus for education…

In a live portion, representatives of the Tax Foundation and Baker & Hostetler took questions from the audience about the implications of various tax reform proposals. Representative Phil Cr…