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Sen. Richard Blumenthal said lawmakers look forward to receiving the research "within days or weeks, not months."

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., argued Tuesday that Democratic lawmakers will have a “responsibility” to raise the debt ceiling through the budget reconciliation process later this year if Republicans follow through on their threat not to support an extension.

Senate Democrats unveiled more details Tuesday about their proposal to implement a 15% minimum tax on corporate profits as part of their efforts to cover the cost of President Biden’s expansive social spending bill.

The Treasury Department inspector general is planning to audit on whether major airline companies are in compliance with the terms of their federal government loans under the CARES Act, amid layoffs of employees due to coronavirus vaccine mandates.

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are pushing for Medicaid expansion in the Democrats' reconciliation bill, with opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin,

Manchin said President Biden agreed with him that it is unseemly to force the IRS to report bank accounts' inflows and outflows to the IRS.

Sen. Joe Manchin said Tuesday that a deeply controversial proposal that would force banks to turn over most customers' account information to the Internal Revenue Service will likely be dropped from Democrats' final tax and spending bill, even after the White House agreed to narrow the scope of the plan.

A top House Democrat threw doubt on a new Senate plan to tax the unrealized capital gains of billionaires and other ultrahigh earners, arguing the proposal may be too complicated to implement.

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt says he believes Democrats' "transformational" reconciliation bill could help him win his race.

TikTok, Snap and YouTube are in the hot seat as the companies are set to face questions from Congress over the platforms' impacts on teens.

Moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia indicated Monday that he would support tax proposals targeting billionaires amid ongoing negotiations within the party toward an agreement on President Biden’s sweeping social spending bill.

Senate Democrats are crafting a plan to tax billionaires and other ultra-high earners in order to pay for the bulk of President Biden's signature economic spending plan after failing to secure enough support for a slew of other planned tax increases.

Two high-profile House progressives said this week that they would vote for the infrastructure bill in exchange for assurances from President Biden that reconciliation will pass.