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On August 7, the Fed provided a snapshot of the self-perceived financial and economic well-being of U.S. households and the issues they face, based on responses to the Board’s 2013 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking.

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin stated that his goal is to have an overhaul of the Internal Revenue Code by August.

In the September 24th edition of the Washington Post, Ariana Eunjung Cha highlighted the impact of budget cuts on research funding in her article "Budget Sequester Squeezes Scientific Research."

The White House announced that President Trump's tax reform plan will be coming soon (around March 13th). Stay tuned!

On Thursday, a California Superior Court judge dismissed a CA Chamber of Commerce lawsuit challenging the State’s cap-and-trade program auction as an unconstitutional tax

On November 6, 2017, Randal K. Quarles was ceremonially sworn in as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as Vice Chair for Supervision.

The Department of the Treasury named Acting Under Secretary Adam Szubin as Acting Secretary of the Treasury.

The Federal Reserve Board, the FDIC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC and the CFTC extended the comment period regarding a proposed rule to revamp the Volcker Rule. The comment period deadline – originally September 17, 2018 – was pushed back to October 17, 2018.

With the record-breaking campaign expenditures of the 2014 midterm elections behind us, and the 2016 campaign cycle already heating up, this is an ideal moment for investment advisers (including advisers to venture capital funds and certain private equity and hedge funds) to ensure that they have mechanisms in place to verify compliance with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s pay-to-play rule.

Blank Rome Partners Joan N. Stern and Dacia A. Haddad co-authored a chapter titled "Public Finance Law—Building America" in the book Lawyers as Economic Drivers: The Business Case for Legal Services.

Jamie Barnett published "A platform plank for both parties: Good government" in The Hill on August 6, 2015.

On Wednesday the Senate rolled out a new PCS for HB 1224 - Economic Development Changes that added what lobbyists for local government groups were expecting to be additional authority over local taxes but was instead a limitation of those powers

This evening, Sunday, March 12, 2023, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC issued a joint statement indicating that there has been an agreement...

The Federal Election Commission's revised federal contribution limits for 2013-2014 removed any reference to the biennial aggregate limit which was recently stuck down by the Supreme Court in McCutcheon v. FEC.

Over the past several months, many federal agencies have adopted rules significantly increasing the maximum civil monetary penalties ("CMPs") they can potentially impose. The increased penalty amounts were adopted in response to recent legislation from Congress requiring that federal agencies make adjustments to "catch up" with inflation. The catch up adjustments allow agencies to increase their penalty amounts by as much as 150% of their November 2, 2015 values. In addition, agencies must make

An interim final rule to increase the asset threshold from $1 billion to $3 billion for qualifying insured depository institutions ("IDIs") was published in the Federal Register.

The Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC's (collectively, the "agencies") ...

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issued a statement from the Federal Open Market Committee.