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Menendez, Booker want United Airlines to nix bid to outsource catering jobs

May 5, 2021 3:44 pm

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-North Bergen) and Cory Booker (D-Newark) urged the U.S. Treasury and United Airlines to halt a plan to move 2,500 catering jobs out of the country Wednesday. The lawmakers said United moved to pay its executives...

Yellen will try to work with Congress on SALT cap

March 23, 2021 6:32 pmMarch 23, 2021 6:56 pm

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) she would work with Congress to eliminate the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions imposed by the 2017 Republican tax bill. “I do think the SALT cap is...

Gottheimer asks Yellen to restore SALT cap workaround

January 26, 2021 12:19 pm

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff) called on President Joe Biden’s newly confirmed treasury secretary to reinstate an ill-fated workaround to the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions Tuesday. “It is imperative that we work together to get our tax...

Menendez wants non-partisan commission to investigate nation’s pandemic response

September 23, 2020 11:38 am

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-North Bergen) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) want to create a non-partisan commission to investigate the country’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. “We can never put our country, our communities and our families through this again,” Menendez...