
Cami Mondeaux
Congressional Reporter at Deseret News
I chase lawmakers down hallways and tweet what they say | Congressional reporter @deseret & author of On The Hill newsletter | Past lives: @dcexaminer @kslcom
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13 hours ago |
deseret.com | Cami Mondeaux
WASHINGTON - Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a measure to repeal a number of clean energy tax credits passed under the Biden administration to help pay for President Donald Trump's forthcoming tax package. The committee voted along party lines to advance its portion of the budget framework on Wednesday afternoon, which includes measures seeking to secure Trump's campaign promises to make the country energy dominant.
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13 hours ago |
yahoo.com | Cami Mondeaux
WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a measure to repeal a number of clean energy tax credits passed under the Biden administration to help pay for President Donald Trump’s forthcoming tax package. The committee voted along party lines to advance its portion of the budget framework on Wednesday afternoon, which includes measures seeking to secure Trump’s campaign promises to make the country energy dominant.
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16 hours ago |
deseret.com | Cami Mondeaux
WASHINGTON - As Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, stood at the top of Ensign Peak, he placed himself in the shoes of his ancestors who climbed the same peak almost two centuries ago. Times have certainly changed, he said, but the values that drove them there remain the same. Curtis thought of the trials facing his predecessors: An empty and barren desert staring back at them as they searched for a new home.
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16 hours ago |
yahoo.com | Cami Mondeaux
WASHINGTON — As Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, stood at the top of Ensign Peak, he placed himself in the shoes of his ancestors who climbed the same peak almost two centuries ago. Times have certainly changed, he said, but the values that drove them there remain the same. Curtis thought of the trials facing his predecessors: An empty and barren desert staring back at them as they searched for a new home.
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17 hours ago |
deseret.com | Cami Mondeaux
WASHINGTON - Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, inadvertently nodded off during a marathon budget markup very early Tuesday morning, resulting in a video clip that quickly went viral as he was shaken awake by his colleague. It was nearly 5 a.m. EDT when the House clerk went through the roll call for House Ways and Means Committee members to cast their vote on a Democratic amendment. But the clerk was forced to pause on one name: Moore, who was softly snoozing in his chair. Rep.
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While the House struggles to get together on its version of the reconciliation bill, some in the Senate are already planning to make changes — which could dilute some of the deeper demands hardliners want Rep. Burlison tells me: “I expect the Senate to be more squishy than us.

SALT negotiations continue… Lawler this morning: “Obviously, we want to come to a resolution so that we can get a bill across the finish line. But the fact is that as this is written, there is 0% chance that I would support it.” Says dialogue with leadership is ongoing

RT @liz_elkind: It’s official: House Budget Committee marking up Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” 9am on Friday https://t.co/CqDxYkcZLD