Bill Pascrell: “The majority of those folks who use that deduction, the oldest deduction on the tax books--it goes back to the Civil…”

I am glad the budget includes finally closing the carried interest loophole, maybe the worst loophole in the entire tax code.

So I am proud of our efforts to make big business and rich tax cheats finally pay their fair share. What the heck is wrong with that? And we have made progress.

I am proud to say that SAFER awarded more than $5 billion to departments to hire, recruit, and retain firefighters. These grants are amongst the most effective in the entire Federal budget. Fire departments rely on the Fire Administration…

We are not going to solve this problem by threatening academia.