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  1. Workers Can Take Full Advantage Of Clean Energy Tax Credits

    March 26, 2024
    Casey Colleagues Urge Biden Administration To Ensure Workers Can Take Full Advantage Of Clean Energy Tax Credits March 26 2024 WASHINGTON U S Senators Chris Murphy D Conn and Richard Blumenthal D Conn joined...implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act s prevailing wage and registered apprenticeship tax credits The tax credits are intended to provide tens of thousands of electricians metalworkers welders and...generation In the letter the senators pressed the Administration to make the process of receiving these tax credits smooth and efficient so that the law can reach its full potential The senators wrote The purpose... Read More

  2. Murphy: They Don't Make Them Like Lowell Weicker Any Longer

    July 13, 2023
    Weicker became governor and made that proposal I don t think I had any thoughts on whether an income tax was the right or the wrong thing but what I saw for the first time was a political leader standing...income tax He frankly opposed the idea earlier in his career but he surveyed every other option necessary to rescue Connecticut from its political and fiscal crisis and he judged that an income tax was the...said the only way for Connecticut to be fiscally sound going into the future is to have an income tax He fought both Republicans and Democrats to get that done And he got it done I was 17 years old at... Read More

  3. Blumenthal and Murphy praise Senate rejection of move to overturn pistol brace ban

    June 22, 2023
    pistol brace ban on Thursday The resolution was spearheaded by its House sponsor Rep Andrew Clyde R Ga and largely supported by the GOP as it passed through the House and moved to the Senate floor If passed...and dealers who modify their weapons in such a manner must comply with the far stricter rules and taxation of short barrel rifles Blumenthal and Murphy both took the floor to lobby for the rejection prior... Read More

  4. After Record Year For Big Oil, Murphy, Blumenthal Introduce Bill To Claw Back Windfall Profits And Send Relief To The American Public

    February 21, 2023
    reintroducing the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act to crack down on profiteering by Big Oil and return the industry s excessive gains to working people The oil and gas industry raked in record breaking profits...war on Ukraine as an excuse to engage in price gouging and crush families trying to fill up their gas tanks This legislation is a much needed course correction that would hold Big Oil accountable for its...largest publicly traded oil companies Exxon Mobil Chevron BP Shell and TotalEnergies hauled in pre tax profits totaling 264 3 billion in fiscal year 2022 Exxon alone reported 77 8 billion in profits in... Read More

  5. Step By Step, Murphy Sees Politics Turn National

    September 15, 2022
    issues that are directly affecting them every year like municipal taxes Right now people across Connecticut are feeling emotionally taxed not just by their town s mill rates he reported but by country wide...less suburbs he traversed this week And all across the state he noted people are frustrated about gas prices Murphy said he believed the Supreme Court s recent rulings especially their decision to upend...There s not necessarily much the government can do for example to decrease the cost of filling peoples gas tanks But this year s walk was also a Murphy victory lap In addition to figuring out how to protect... Read More

  6. The Kansas Abortion Referendum Has a Message for Democrats

    September 15, 2022
    reminded me of a conversation I had back in 2005 with Grover Norquist the veteran Republican anti tax campaigner who has long played a key role in uniting a fractious conservative movement which he often...practice his faith the guy who wants to make money the guy who wants to spend money without paying taxes the guy who wants to fondle his gun they all have a lot in common Norquist told me They all want the...eighteen and forty nine And Democratic candidates need all the help they can get Despite a recent fall in gas prices Joe Biden s approval rating is languishing at thirty nine per cent according to FiveThirtyEight... Read More

  7. Murphy, Blumenthal, Colleagues, Call for IRS to Address Ongoing Concerns and Processing Delays

    March 14, 2022
    service and processing issues The IRS s lack of action is causing unnecessary confusion as the current tax filing season is underway We remain concerned that the IRS does not have a comprehensive plan to remedy...National Association of Tax Professionals NATP National Society of Accountants NSA National Conference of CPA Practitioners NCCPAP National Association of Black Accountants Inc NABA Latino Tax Pro Diverse Organization...National Society of Black Certified Public Accountants NSBCPA Prosperity Now and National Society of Tax Professionals NSTP In addition to Murphy Blumenthal and U S Senators Bob Menendez D N J and Bill Cassidy... Read More

  8. Murphy on CNN: Let's Admit the Insanity of a U.S. Economy That Runs on Oil Provided by Dictators

    March 08, 2022
    Tapper to discuss President Biden s announcement to ban the import of Russian oil liquefied natural gas and coal to the United States On the cumulative impact of the Biden administration s sanctions on Russia...feeling squeezed at the gas pump Murphy said I t s really easy for the political elites in Washington to tell low income consumers they should pay more for a gallon of gasoline in order to save Ukraine...interested in a proposal that some of my colleagues have here to temporarily suspend the gas tax or lower the gas tax to try to defray the costs for consumers but I think as long as this war is happening... Read More

  9. Murphy, Baldwin, Shaheen, Blumenthal, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Limit Junk Health Plans That Undermine Standards of Affordable Care Act

    February 15, 2022
    Mark Warner D Va Raphael Warnock D Ga Sheldon Whitehouse D R I Mazie Hirono D Hawaii Ed Markey D Mass Ben Cardin D Md Dick Durbin D Ill Jeff Merkley D Ore Jon Ossoff D Ga Chris Coons D Del Charles Schumer...costs and made fewer Americans eligible for the ACA a premium tax credits while also causing those who are eligible to receive less in tax credit support In the previous administration Murphy and Baldwin...use of the junk plans and also to the Congressional Budget Office CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation to reevaluate the baseline assumptions and projections it published regarding the use and purchase... Read More

  10. Murphy: Republicans Failed To Advance Their Unpopular Agenda Through Congress So They Are Forcing It Through The Courts, Breaking Our Democracy In The Process

    October 23, 2020
    Republicans to strike down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act I watched them make the change to the tax law when they couldn t repeal it through Congress said Murphy Murphy continued H ealth care is not...kind of explained what they did for you in his remarks just before mine He said put into the 2017 tax bill a relatively small change to the Affordable Care Act that opened it up to judicial assault Then...Barrett who has already stated on the record that she thinks the law even before the changes in the tax bill were made is unconstitutional has been selected specifically in order to be the fifth vote to... Read More