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Lawmakers Risk Repeating Early Internet Tax Mistakes in Push to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the modern economy, federal lawmakers are increasingly looking for ways to harness, direct, or penalize the technology through the tax code. However, tax policy experts warn that the legislative playbook being pulled from increasingly resembles a relic of the past, threatening to stifle American innovation just as it reaches…
EU Lawmakers Push to Delay Methane Emissions Rules by Three Years to Protect Energy Security
Lawmakers in the European Parliament have voted decisively to delay stringent methane monitoring and reporting rules for foreign oil, gas, and coal importers by three years. In a 341 to 225 vote, the Parliament moved significantly further than the initial one-year postponement proposed earlier this month by the European Commission, anchoring its negotiating position around…
Lawmakers Weigh Fiscal Commission to Confront Rising U.S. Debt and Deficits
The U.S. House Budget Committee recently convened a high-stakes field hearing to examine the pressing need for a bipartisan fiscal commission, as lawmakers confront an increasingly severe national debt and deficit trajectory. During the session, members were confronted with stark reminders of the current fiscal reality: interest payments on the national debt now officially exceed…
Congress Weighs Fiscal Commission as Rising National Debt and Interest Costs Pressure Lawmakers
The United States House Budget Committee recently convened a high-stakes field hearing to confront what many lawmakers and economic experts describe as an escalating fiscal emergency: the nation’s rapidly rising debt and mounting budget deficits. Against the backdrop of sobering economic projections, the hearing focused intensely on whether the federal government should establish a bipartisan…
Congress Weighs Fiscal Commission as Rising National Debt and Interest Costs Pressure Lawmakers
The United States House Budget Committee recently convened a high-stakes field hearing to examine the nation’s increasingly precarious fiscal future and evaluate the urgent need for a bipartisan fiscal commission. As lawmakers confronted mounting evidence of the severity of the federal debt problem—including the stark reality that interest payments on the national debt now eclipse…
