Tag: Joseph Lawler

"While making good use of limited tax dollars, this legislation also makes great strides in reining in wasteful spending and stopping harmful and unnecessary bureaucratic overreach," said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images File)

House moves to oversee consumer bureau’s funding

Joseph Lawler · June 10, 2015 2:57 pm

Rep. Kevin Brady hopes that significant reform of the 100-year-old Federal Reserve may be within reach.

Key Texas lawmaker seeks to overhaul Fed

Joseph Lawler · June 10, 2015 4:01 am

Senate banking chairman on Ex-Im Bank: Without reform, ‘we ought to let it die’

Joseph Lawler · June 9, 2015 7:23 pm

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said that the proposed rule would entail "unintended consequences" for some workers, making it harder for small businesses that can't afford in-house financial advisers to offer retirement plans to their employees. (iStock photo)

Chamber challenges rule against kickbacks for retirement advisers

Joseph Lawler · June 9, 2015 3:07 pm

"We're certainly not going to be able to be doing big, comprehensive tax reform with this president," McConnell said in an interview with the publication Morning Consult posted online Sunday. (Getty Image)

Hope for tax reform fades

Joseph Lawler · June 9, 2015 4:01 am

Dick Durbin is trying to stop Monsanto from moving its headquarters overseas to cut down on U.S. taxes. (AP Photo)

Durbin raises alarm over potential Monsanto move out of U.S.

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2015 8:08 pm

"It's literally one-by-one, district-by-district, trying to close up the remaining undecided votes," Business Roundtable President John Engler said. "And there's still some there. But we expect to succeed." (AP Photo)Â

Business lobby: Down to one-on-one with lawmakers on trade bill

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2015 7:09 pm

Protesters with Occupy Congress hold up a signs in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg)

Wall Street bears brunt of Dem attacks

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

The Congressional Budget Office is going to be busy running dynamic analyses of legislation. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

Five items that members of Congress want dynamically scored

Joseph Lawler · June 7, 2015 4:01 am

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen attends a Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting at the Treasury Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 19, 2015, on the Council's 2015 annual report and a discussion of charters for the Council's committees. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Yellen: Fed withholds leak info from Congress because of criminal investigation

Joseph Lawler · June 5, 2015 8:17 pm

Financial markets are likely to undergo "some turbulence" when the Federal Reserve moves to raise interest rates, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said Friday. (AP Photo)

Expect market turbulence when rates rise, Fed official says

Joseph Lawler · June 5, 2015 5:36 pm

280,000 job gains beat expectations in May, unemployment at 5.5 percent

Joseph Lawler · June 5, 2015 12:30 pm