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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

No Slowdown in Sight When It Comes to Focus on Drug Pricing Policy

Congress may be in recess, but that has not slowed down drug pricing policy developments. In recent days, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have rolled out a series...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Six Wishes for the Forthcoming Final Regulations Under MHPAEA

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On July 1, 2024, the US Department of Labor (DOL) submitted final regulations to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) as most recently amended by the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Cozen Currents: To the Victors Goes the Process

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The Cozen Lens - •If either party sweeps control of the federal government in November, pressure will be high to reform the filibuster. •The embrace of populism among Democrats and Republicans has made antitrust...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CBO report outlines strengths and risks of the FHLBank system

Recently, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the Federal Home Loan Banks’ (FHLBanks) role in the financial system, outlining their strengths and risks in the larger financial system. The CBO noted that...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: March 2024 #3

Monday, March 11, 2024: Biden “Hits the Brakes” on Non-Defense Discretionary Budgets for Federal Agencies Joining Congress’ Historic Pivot Away from Both Bigger Federal Agencies and Bigger Social Programs - With the...more

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Cozen Currents: The Bipartisan Impact of Partisan Legislation

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The Cozen Lens- •Republicans have been talking a big game about repealing the Inflation Reduction Act in its entirety but actually going through with it will be more difficult. •Non-defense spending is poised to be hit...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Debtor Corp’s S Election: “Property” in Bankruptcy?

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Uncertain Future- The Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) recently released some data for the federal government’s 2023 fiscal year. According to the CBO, the federal budget deficit for the year was $1.7 trillion, or...more

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Beltway Buzz - September 2023 #4

Funding Update: Shutdown Looms. How—and when—the federal government will be funded after September 30, 2023, continued to be the main focus of our elected members of Congress this week. Of course, attention is now primarily...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Treasury Provides Temporary Relief from 401(k) Catch-up Contributions Rollback - Update

The Secure 2.0 Act (Secure 2.0), a sweeping retirement bill included in Division T of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, was a major bipartisan accomplishment of the 117th Congress. The bill included 82 provisions...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Taxation & Representation, March 21, 2023

Senators Renew Efforts to Reverse R&D Tax Modification. Last Friday, a bipartisan coalition of 12 senators introduced the American Innovation and Jobs Act to increase incentives for businesses that invest in domestic research...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP’s Congressional Budget Justification Is Chock-Full of Insights Into the Agency’s Future Plans & Past Performance

The 34-page OFCCP full fiscal year (“FY”) 2024 Congressional Budget Justification (“CBJ”) revealed key aspects of the agency’s future plans and past performance metrics. We reported last week that OFCCP’s FY 2024 budget...more

DirectEmployers Association

DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Congressional Budget Justification Is Chock-Full of Insights Into the Agency’s Plans & Past Performance

In this episode of DE Under 3, John & Candee discuss OFCCP's budget justification which hints at priorities moving forward, including an interest in data metrics and which industries will be the target of enforcement...more

Venable LLP

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Debt Cancellation, Other Changes to Student Lending Program

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​​​​​​​On August 24, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) announced an extension of the pause on student loan repayment, student debt cancellation, a new income-driven repayment plan, and proposed changes...more

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A Look at the Tax Court’s Congressional Budget Justification

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We frequently write about developments at the US Tax Court, including noteworthy cases, administrative matters, and the status of presidentially appointed Judges and court-appointed Special Trial Judges...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Tax & Financial Services Week Ahead - November 15, 2021

The House and Senate will reconvene Monday at 6:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., respectively.  What to Watch This afternoon, President Joe Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—the bipartisan infrastructure...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Tax & Financial Services Week Ahead - November 1, 2021

The House and Senate will reconvene Monday at 6:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., respectively - What to Watch - Last week, congressional Democrats released 1,684 pages of legislative text mirroring portions of the budget...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

House Passes Build Back Better Reconciliation Bill

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Early on November 19, 2021, the House passed H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act (the “Act”) along partisan lines. Passage came after the Congressional Budget Office released projections on the overall net cost of the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.16.2021 | Top Story: $1T Infrastructure Investment Signed Into Law

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The tortuously negotiated and much-anticipated infrastructure bill that will commit $1 trillion to rebuilding the “nation’s roads, ports and power lines” officially became law on Monday. Here’s another look at what the final...more

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New Federal Infrastructure Legislation Eliminates Employee Retention Credit

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On Monday, November 15, President Joseph Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the Infrastructure Act). Although the legislation contains only a few tax provisions, one surprising change is...more

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Significant Changes to Transfer Tax Rules May Not Come to Fruition

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The updated version of the Build Back Better Act released by the House Budget Committee on November 3, 2021, does not include any of the significant gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax or grantor trust...more

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Maybe Tax the Rich, but Not The Conversion of S corps into Partnerships – What Gives?

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Tax the Rich? A few days ago, an opinion piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal began as follows: “President Biden’s effort to pass the largest tax increase in U.S. history is based on the verifiably false...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Healthcare & Life Sciences: Drug Pricing Digest - September 2021

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Drug Pricing Initiatives: Congress is proceeding with the budget reconciliation process, which includes proposed measures related to drug pricing. House committees are beginning to mark up sections of the legislation related...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

The Debt Ceiling: The Gamesmanship Begins

The clock is ticking for Congress to reach a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit — the debt ceiling. On July 23, 2021, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen notified Congress that, as of Aug. 1, the outstanding debt of...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Making a Manchin out of a molehill: Senate infrastructure and budget debates heat up

Fresh from their July 4 recess, the Senate has returned to Washington to continue infrastructure and budget bill negotiations. As previously discussed, there are two distinct legislative paths making their way through...more

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Seriously Underfunded Multiemployer Defined Benefit Pension Plans - Relief Finally Arrives

We had pondered when this day would come. The doomsday scenario that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) would become insolvent in five to six years is now old history. (The new estimated time of PBGC insolvency...more

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