Sunset Provision

With the Republican-controlled Congress moving forward with President Donald Trump's call to extend the 2017 individual tax cuts, Democrats and Republicans are spinning the facts about who would benefit. Several Democrats have framed the tax cuts as exclusively benefiting billionaires, while Trump has suggested everyone in America would see a tax cut.

In the constitutional tug-of-war, why has the legislative branch let go of the rope?

Former president offers blank cheque to coal and oil, and cosies up to billionaires such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was named Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, flip-flopped on Second Amendment issues after receiving the NRA's endorsement a decade ago.

Reagan's assassination attempt led to bipartisan support for reforms. Now, the GOP will probably focus on security instead

The US Senate has passed a cloture motion to begin voting on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires on April 19th.

The legislation would have allowed some married couples in high-tax states to save on their Internal Revenue Service bills.

A longshot bid to temporarily double a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions for most married couples went down to defeat in the House

Shapecharge | E+ | Getty ImagesThe federal estate-tax exemption helps wealthy families avoid or reduce inheritance tax, but the clock is ticking on the

Alabama has come back to the Supreme Court in an emergency posture requesting a green light to use their still-illegal maps.

The Biden administration's $6 billion transfer to Iran in exchange for five American prisoners will likely fail to produce concessions from Tehran.

We Europeans are relationship people – and that's where a lot of our political confusion stems from. We commingle the notion of strategic interests and external relationships. It is one of the things

On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a plane in Hong Kong carrying with him evidence confirming, among other things, that the United States government had been conducting mass surveillance on a global scale. What came next were weeks of...

The shooting deaths of three children and three adults inside a Nashville school has put further pressure on Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Young researchers want to dismantle and debunk the claim that opposition to the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos was limited to Metro Manila

The UK's Environment Information Regulations have enabled researchers and campaigners to force water firms to publish data on river pollution, but they may be scrapped as part of the Brexit process

I wish to expound on the letter "GOP and 'fixing' Social Security" (Feb. 10, TribLIVE). Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has proposed a plan that would "sunset" all federal legislation in five years; "if a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again," he said. He also said

The former House lawmaker isn't done calling on his fellow Republicans to reject the party's more extremist elements.

President Biden revived the Obamacare wars on Tuesday, pointing to the law that Democrats muscled to passage in 2010 as a likely target for Republicans who want to rein in spending as part of tense debt-limit negotiations.

A bill has been filed to reintroduce the Texas' recently sunsetted Chapter 313 school property tax abatement program that has massive implications for the state's economic development policy and ability to lure new jobs and businesses.