GOP tries to keep spotlight on taxes [View all]
Republicans are trying to stay focused on tax reform amid the barrage of developments related to President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey and the broader investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.
The House Ways and Means Committee held its first tax-reform hearing of the year on Thursday, a milestone that House GOP leaders went out of their way to talk up over the course of the week.
Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) started Wednesday’s weekly GOP conference press briefing with comments about the need for tax reform.
The press conference came the morning after a report in The New York Times that Trump had asked Comey to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn — an assertion that fanned talk of impeachment on Capitol Hill.
Ryan also brought up the tax-reform hearing, along with other accomplishments in the House, during his weekly press briefing on Thursday.
“People in the country need to know that we are busy at work trying to solve their problems,” Ryan said. “I realize that there’s a lot in the media these days. That doesn’t seize up Congress.”
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/334150-gop-tries-to-keep-the-spotlight-on-taxes
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