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D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

July 12, 2024 3:48 pm

Washington was overrun this week with the kind of tension and chaos that hasn’t been seen since last fall’s Speaker battle – and this time, the drama originated from well outside the Capitol’s halls. Ever since his troubled debate performance...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

February 9, 2024 4:11 pm

Congress had a busy schedule this week: the Senate finally began work on a foreign aid bill after scuttling a larger deal on border security, while the House tried and failed to impeach one of Joe Biden’s cabinet secretaries. And...

All N.J. House members except Van Drew vote for debt ceiling deal

May 31, 2023 9:50 pm

The Fiscal Responsibility Act – the official name for the U.S. House’s bipartisan debt ceiling agreement – passed the U.S. House on a 314-117 vote today, with 11 of New Jersey’s 12 House members voting in support of the bill....

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...