![]() Confirming more judges: Confirming as many of Biden’s judicial nominees as possible isn’t as urgent a priority as it would have been if Democrats had lost the Senate, but Democratic senators are still under pressure to move some nominees, in part, because they would have to be renominated in the new Congress.“Unless Congress acts, this is going to be a significant burden on individual taxpayers and start-ups” said Arshi Siddiqui, a lobbyist for the coalition. The bill would send a 1099-K tax form to people who have sold as little as $600 of goods online in a year, down from a previous threshold of $20,000 and 200 sales. The Coalition for 1099-K Fairness, for instance - members include Airbnb, eBay and Etsy - is pressing for Congress to change a provision in the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that Biden signed last year. ![]() Other K Street priorities: There are only so many must-pass bills to which lobbyists can try to attach their clients’ priorities, so each one is an opportunity.Much of corporate America is pushing to delay this change until 2026 (when it can presumably be delayed again). The 2018 Republican tax law required companies to amortize their expenses over five years as a way to help pay for the costs of the bill’s tax cuts - starting Jan. One of the big ones up for extension this year is known as research-and-development amortization. Extending tax breaks: Tax extenders - which prevent certain tax breaks from expiring on the books - are traditional lame-duck fare.“That’s going to determine how everything else goes, in terms of how much time that sucks out of the air.” “I think the whole ballgame right now is the rail strike to be honest,” said Rich Gold, the leader of Holland & Knight’s public policy and regulation group. Passing legislation to prevent a strike would eat up precious time, though. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) vowed on “Fox News Sunday” that Congress wouldn’t let a strike happen. Negotiations between railroad unions and companies are ongoing, but Rep. Dealing with a potential rail strike: One threat to Congress’s productivity over the next four weeks: the possibility that lawmakers will need to intervene to prevent a crippling railroad strike ahead of the holiday.While such a move would deprive House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who’s in line to be speaker, of a potential weapon, it would also remove the burden of raising the debt limit next year with Democratic votes. Yellen and other Democrats are calling for it to be dealt with now while the party still controls Congress. But with Republicans warning they plan to use it as leverage for spending cuts or other policy demands, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Raising the debt limit: The debt limit won’t need to be raised until next year.(Attaching it to a larger bill would also avoid a messy amendment process.) Given the time constraints, one way to pass the measure would be to attach it to a must-pass bill like the government funding legislation or the NDAA.Hoyer (D-Md.) wrote that House Democrats “ought to take swift action to ensure that we secure reforms to our electoral count system” if the Senate passes its bill. In a “Dear Colleague” letter on Sunday, House Majority Leader Steny H. ![]() Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), so the two chambers would need to reconcile the bills - or the House could just pass the Senate bill.
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