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Congressional Democrats are calling top executives at ExxonMobil and other oil giants to testify about what lawmakers say is a long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global warming.

After California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s historic victory against a GOP-led recall effort Tuesday, lawmakers are looking to reform the process. 

The proposed reform is one of several that would affect taxpayers with income over $400,000 a year.

House Democrats proposed a 26.5% top corporate tax rate and 39.6% top individual rate as they try to pay for a $3.5 trillion bill.

Congressional Democrats have set out to pass ambitious bills with historic expansions of the social safety net and long-sought new programs. But that’s not how many politically vulnerable Democrats are selling them at home.

Don’t focus on the bottom line. That’s President Joe Biden’s message for fellow Democrats about his plan to raise taxes to remake large swaths of the American economy, Biden is trying to persuade Democrats to look past specific numbers and embrace a more emotional argument that the plan is fair.

Democrats are starting to push plans for providing paid family and medical leave, easing climate change and bolstering education through House committees.

Continuing the expanded credit beyond 2021 would slash child poverty to 8.4% from 14.2%, a roughly 40% fall, according to a study from the Urban Institute.

The California gubernatorial recall effort grew into a threat to Gavin Newsom amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Congressional Democrats are weighing a raft of taxes that would target CEO pay and big U.S. companies that buy back shares.

Sen. Joe Manchin came out against a $3.5 trillion budget bill on Thursday, throwing cold water on one of President Joe Biden’s top legislative ambitions.

IRS chief Charles Rettig told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that relying on banks to report on their customers’ accounts could help cut the tax gap.

Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican and a lead author of the Trump tax cuts, thinks Democrats will pass two massive spending bills before October.

Kathy Hochul, the first female governor of New York, delivered her first major address a day after Andrew Cuomo resigned over a sexual harassment scandal.

Elsewhere, House Democrats said they “will be forced to consider other steps to obtain compliance” if Cyber Ninjas “continues to obstruct” their investigation.

Wall Street thinks moderates are bluffing and says investors should prep for both an infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill.

Cuomo is set to be succeeded by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat, who will become the state’s first female governor.

For months, Democrats and Republicans have been laying the groundwork for a complex, 50-state legal battle over the once-a-decade process of redistricting.

Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan said Friday that copies of civil warrants are now being delivered to the homes of more than 50 Democrats who have refused to return to the Capitol since July in an effort to block new voting restrictions.NBC 5’s Scott Gordon reports the goal is only to get them back to the state capitol for the…

Law enforcement officers on Friday showed up at the homes of some Texas Democratic lawmakers who broke quorum a month ago to block a controversial election bill. But nobody was arrested.