CORPORATIONS related term(s) Business and Industry

Amendments

Business and industry: promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), consideration (H. Res. 1396), H8177 [28SE]

Economy: use of budget reconciliation to fight inflation, reduce prescription drug and health care costs, address climate change, increase tax fairness, and reduce deficit (H.R. 5376), S3922 [3AU], S4070, S4145, S4170, S4171, S4172, S4178, S4179, S4180, S4181, S4184, S4185, S4186, S4187, S4190, S4191, S4192, S4197, S4199, S4200, S4221, S4222, S4225, S4226, S4231, S4234, S4237, S4238, S4243, S4244, S4245, S4247, S4248, S4249, S4250, S4252, S4253, S4256, S4257, S4292, S4295, S4296, S4297, S4298, S4301, S4306, S4310, S4311, S4312, S4313, S4316, S4317, S4320, S4321, S4322, S4323, S4324, S4325, S4326, S4327, S4329, S4331, S4334, S4335, S4336, S4337, S4338, S4339, S4341, S4342, S4343, S4344, S4345, S4346, S4347, S4348, S4349, S4350, S4360, S4361, S4376, S4397, S4399 [6AU], H7577 [12AU]

Analyses

Inflation Reduction Act Budgetary and Macroeconomic Effects: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, H7670 [12AU]

Articles and editorials

Don’t Defund the (Antitrust) Police, H8259 [29SE]

Oil and Gas Lobbyists Are Using Ukraine To Push for a Drilling Free-for-All in the US, H1384 [9MR], H3757 [16MR]

Oil Giants Reap Record Profits as War Rages in Ukraine, Energy Prices Soar—Here’s How Much They Made, H5020 [17MY]

Over 230 Economists Warn Manchin’s Spending Bill Will Perpetuate Inflation, H7650 [12AU]

Tech Hawks Meet Resistance to a ‘‘Modest Proposal’’, H8259 [29SE]

Bills and resolutions

Bureau of Justice Statistics: establish database to collect, aggregate, analyze, and publish comprehensive data on Federal corporate criminal enforcement actions (see S. 5141), S6857 [29NO] (see H.R. 9362), H8647 [29NO]

Business and industry: establish criminal penalties for failing to inform and warn of serious dangers (see S. 5139), S6857 [29NO] (see H.R. 9361), H8647 [29NO]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), consideration (see H. Res. 1396), H8219 [28SE]

——— require certain businesses to disclose use of forced labor in their direct supply chain (see S. 3578), S523 [3FE]

China: address corrupt business practices that excuse genocide, advance Chinese Communist Party propaganda, advocate on behalf of Chinese Communist Party officials, or invest in certain Chinese industries (see S. 3584), S523 [3FE]

Constitutional amendments: clarify application of words people, person, or citizen in the Constitution to corporations, limited liability companies, or other corporate entities (see H.J. Res. 85), H4707 [29AP]

Courts: provide private right of action for small business owners harmed by corporations who violate FTC franchise rule (see H.R. 6551), H330 [1FE]

Employment: enable employer or employees to establish employee involvement organization to promote cooperative efforts between management and labor (see S. 3585), S523 [3FE] (see H.R. 6579), H946 [3FE]

——— encourage to commit to utilizing benefits of gender diversity in boards of directors and other senior management positions (see H. Res. 971), H1374 [8MR]

FEC: limit authority of corporations to establish and operate separate segregated funds for political purposes, including political committees, to nonprofit corporations (see S. 3528), S382 [20JA]

Federal employees: prohibit investments under Thrift Savings Plan in certain mutual funds that make investment decisions based primarily on environmental, social, or governance criteria (see S. 5000), S5226 [28SE] (see H.R. 7896), H5219 [27MY]

——— provide for corporate responsibility investment option under Thrift Savings Plan (see H.R. 7852), H5207 [19MY]

FTC: give oversight authority over certain non-profit hospitals (see H.R. 8129), H5645 [16JN]

Investments: require investment advisers for passively-managed funds to arrange for pass-through voting of proxies for certain securities (see S. 4241), S2586 [18MY] (see H.R. 8521), H7254 [27JY]

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (see S. 4822), S4541 [12SE]

Russia: boycott certain companies that continue to operate in Russia and provide financial benefits to Putin regime (see H. Res. 1040), H4396 [6AP]

SEC: extend maximum period company can be emerging growth company from five years to ten years (see S. 4992), S5225 [28SE]

——— improve quality of proxy advisory firms to protect investors and economy and to foster accountability, transparency, responsiveness, and competition in the industry (see H.R. 9527), H9851 [14DE]

——— require issuers filing annual reports to disclose any connections with Chinese Communist Party (see S. 3598), S575 [8FE] (see H.R. 6650), H1074 [8FE]

——— require that information required to be disclosed by issuers be material to investors of those issuers (see S. 5005), S5540 [29SE] (see H.R. 9408), H8729 [2DE]

——— support current definition of materiality in securities laws and oppose new disclosure requirements outside core mission (see H. Res. 1028), H4191 [5AP]

Taxation: deny trade or business expense deduction for reimbursement of employee costs of child gender transition procedure or travel to obtain abortion (see S. 4131), S2275 [3MY] (see H.R. 7684), H4722 [6MY]

——— disallow deductions for payment of punitive damages (see S. 4318), S2751 [26MY]

——— impose income tax on excess profits of certain corporations (see S. 3933), S1803 [28MR] (see H.R. 7443), H4431 [7AP]

——— impose tax on large employers whose employees receive certain Federal benefits because their income is below living wage (see H.R. 9629), H9909 [20DE]

——— lower corporate tax rate for small businesses and close carried interest loophole (see H.R. 6763), H1129 [18FE]

——— prevent excise tax on repurchase of corporate stock from taking effect (see H.R. 8853), H7881 [15SE]

——— prohibit deduction for prescription drug advertising and promotional expenses (see H.R. 6392), H193 [13JA]

——— prohibit deduction of certain expenses for, and impose excise tax on sale of, homes owned by large investors, prohibit Federal mortgage assistance for such investors, and establish neighborhood homes tax credit (see H.R. 9246), H8418 [28OC]

——— provide tax relief for certain small business owners and impose tax on repurchase of corporate stock (see H.R. 8559), H7404 [28JY]

——— repeal corporate alternative minimum tax (see S. 5017), S5541 [29SE] (see H.R. 9030), H8313 [29SE]

——— treat certain liquidations of new motor vehicle inventory as qualified liquidations of last in, first out (LIFO) inventory (see S. 4105), S2219 [28AP] (see H.R. 7382), H4152 [4AP]

Cloture motions

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (S. 4822), motion to proceed, S4816 [19SE], S4949 [22SE]

Cost Estimates

Inflation Reduction Act (H.R. 5376): CBO, H7662 [12AU]

Letters

Inflation Reduction Act: several business organizations, H7679 [12AU]

——— several economists, H7697 [12AU]

——— several natural gas and oil industry representatives, H7669 [12AU]

Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Chris Jones, National Grocers Association, H8256 [29SE]

——— Diana Moss, American Antitrust Institute, H8256 [29SE]

——— Evan Jenkins, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H8173 [28SE]

——— several organizations, H8256 [29SE]

Require issuers of securities that are exempt from SEC registration to disclose basic information relative to issuer and country of origin: Americans for Financial Reform (organization), H864 [2FE]

——— Dylan Bruce, Consumer Federation of America, H864 [2FE]

——— Public Citizen, Inc., H865 [2FE]

Lists

Committee on Taxation (Joint) staff working on H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, S4954 [22SE]

Congressional Budget Office staff working on H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, S4954 [22SE]

Organizations opposing H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, H7678 [12AU]

Organizations supporting H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8174 [28SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on H. Res. 1316, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, H7577 [12AU]

Votes recorded by proxy on H. Res. 1396, consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8179 [28SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8269 [29SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on previous question to H. Res. 1316, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, H7575 [12AU]

Votes recorded by proxy on previous question to H. Res. 1396, consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8178 [28SE]

Votes recorded by proxy on Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, H7704 [12AU]

Memorandums

Estimate of Share Distribution of Inflation Reduction Act Additional Tax Under Corporate Minimum Financial Statement Income Tax: Thomas A. Barthold, Committee on Taxation (Joint), H7668 [12AU]

Inflation Reduction Act Corporate Minimum Financial Statement Income Tax Impact on Federal Fiscal Year Budget Receipts: Thomas A. Barthold, Committee on Taxation (Joint), H7668 [12AU]

Motions

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (S. 4822), S4815 [19SE]

Press releases

Nonpartisan Tax Scorekeeper—Average Working Family Is More Likely To Be Worse Off Than Better Off Under Democrat’s Tax Plan: Committee on Ways and Means (House) Republican Staff, H7663 [12AU]

Republican Senators Urge House Republicans To Support Antitrust Reform Package: Senator Lee, H8258 [29SE]

Remarks in House

Bureau of Justice Statistics: establish database to collect, aggregate, analyze, and publish comprehensive data on Federal corporate criminal enforcement actions (H.R. 9362), H8678 [1DE]

Business and industry: address market consolidation in pharmaceutical industry, H1214 [2MR]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), H8226, H8230, H8252–H8264 [29SE]

——— quarterly profit reports of oil and gas companies, H5019 [17MY]

Committee on Energy and Commerce (House): tribute to staff working on H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, H7690 [12AU]

Economy: use of budget reconciliation to fight inflation, reduce prescription drug and health care costs, address climate change, increase tax fairness, and reduce deficit, H6943 [21JY]

——— use of budget reconciliation to make visionary and transformative investments in health, well-being, and financial security of America’s workers and families, H1298 [3MR]

——— use of budget reconciliation to make visionary and transformative investments in health, well-being, and financial security of America’s workers and families (H.R. 5376), H20 [11JA], H176, H177, H181, H191 [13JA], H249, H251 [19JA], H4570 [27AP]

Inflation Reduction Act: impact, H7745, H7746 [13SE], H7790, H7795 [14SE], H7846, H7847, H7848, H7863–H7868 [15SE], H7947, H7948, H7950, H7959, H7960 [19SE], H7974, H7981 [20SE], H8123 [28SE], H8228, H8298 [29SE]

SEC: require public companies to disclose gender, race, ethnicity, and veteran status of their board directors, nominees, and senior executive officers, H5569 [15JN]

Taxation: expand availability of employee stock ownership plans in S corporations, H3941 [29MR]

——— update family attribution rule relative to family owned corporations, H3942 [29MR]

Remarks in Senate

Amazon.com, Inc.: assessment of tax responsibilities, compliance with Federal discrimination and labor laws, and efforts relative to workers’ right to organize, S2146–S2148 [26AP]

Business and industry: promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources, S2472 [12MY], S10073 [22DE]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), S7050–S7052 [8DE]

——— promote merger enforcement and protect competition through adjusting premerger filing fees and increasing antitrust enforcement resources (H.R. 3843), unanimous-consent request, S7051 [8DE]

——— quarterly profit reports of oil and gas companies, S2985 [16JN]

Climate: effects of climate change, S472–S474 [2FE], S730 [16FE], S1076 [10MR], S2025 [6AP], S2934 [14JN], S3065 [22JN]

——— efforts of corporations and special interest groups to deny and discredit science behind climate change, S472–S474 [2FE], S1076 [10MR], S2025 [6AP], S2934 [14JN], S4465 [7SE], S4892 [21SE]

——— efforts of fossil fuel industry to deny and discredit science behind climate change, S3066 [22JN]

Courts: efforts of special interest groups to influence Federal courts, S142 [11JA], S588 [9FE], S1182 [15MR], S2933–S2935 [14JN], S3263–S3265 [13JY], S3287 [14JY], S3856 [2AU], S4564–S4566 [13SE], S6892–S6894 [30NO]

Crime: require disclosure of beneficial owners of newly incorporated entities to prevent exploitation for criminal gain and assist law enforcement with terrorism and money laundering prevention, S940 [2MR]

Dept. of the Treasury: authority to issue regulations relative to base erosion and anti-abuse tax with certain credits, S4166, S4167 [6AU]

——— authority to issue regulations relative to corporate alternative minimum tax foreign tax credits, S4166 [6AU]

Economy: address unequal distribution of wealth and income, S2031 [6AP], S3253 [13JY]

——— address unequal distribution of wealth and income and growing threat of oligarchy in U.S., S735–S738 [16FE], S1278 [22MR], S1922 [4AP]

——— use of budget reconciliation to fight inflation, reduce prescription drug and health care costs, address climate change, increase tax fairness, and reduce deficit, S3194 [11JY]

——— use of budget reconciliation to fight inflation, reduce prescription drug and health care costs, address climate change, increase tax fairness, and reduce deficit (H.R. 5376), S3729 [27JY], S3749–S3752, S3766–S3768, S3772 [28JY], S3794, S3795, S3797 [1AU], S3837, S3839, S3842, S3853–S3856, S3857, S3858, S3869–S3871 [2AU], S3873, S3874–S3877, S3901, S3994–S3998 [3AU], S4004–S4009, S4015–S4017, S4023, S4026–S4031 [4AU], S4051–S4201, S4210–S4212 [6AU], S4434 [6SE], S4461, S4462 [7SE], S4506 [8SE], S5171 [28SE]

——— use of budget reconciliation to make visionary and transformative investments in health, well-being, and financial security of America’s workers and families (H.R. 5376), S6, S9 [4JA], S470 [2FE], S2141 [26AP], S2348 [5MY]

Inflation Reduction Act: impact, S4420, S4423 [6SE], S4452 [7SE], S4500 [8SE], S4529 [12SE], S4545, S4546, S4549 [13SE], S4586, S4587, S4588, S4596 [14SE], S4628, S4633 [15SE], S4809–S4811 [19SE], S4880, S4882, S4895 [21SE], S4943, S4946, S4953, S4962 [22SE], S5038 [27SE]

Ohio: importance of manufacturing, S2240 [2MY]

Political campaigns: provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities, S302, S303 [19JA]

——— provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (S. 443), S589 [9FE], S3345 [19JY], S3503 [20JY]

——— provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (S. 4822), S4543 [12SE], S4545, S4566 [13SE], S4813 [19SE], S9596, S9597, S9601 [20DE]

——— provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and other entities (S. 4822), motion to proceed, S4815 [19SE], S4831 [20SE], S4880, S4881, S4891, S4902–S4906, S4909 [21SE], S4941–S4950, S4956, S4963 [22SE]

Senate: tribute to staff working on H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, S4953 [22SE]

Supreme Court: impact of decision in Citizens United v. FEC on corporate political contributions used for political speech relative to bipartisanship in addressing climate change, S4891 [21SE]

Taxation: child tax credit expansion funding through increase in corporate tax rate, S4189, S4190 [6AU]

——— corporate alternative minimum tax, S4166 [6AU]

——— prohibit tax credit for electric vehicles produced by or containing components produced by slave or child labor, S4198 [6AU]

——— treat certain liquidations of new motor vehicle inventory as qualified liquidations of last in, first out (LIFO) inventory (S. 4105), S10102 [22DE]

Warren, Senator: tribute to staff working on H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, S4470 [7SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1396) (H. Rept. 117–507), H8219 [28SE]

Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 1316) (H. Rept. 117–451), H7707 [12AU]

Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 1277) (H. Rept. 117–230), H287 [20JA]

Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3843) (H. Rept. 117–493), H8118 [26SE]

Rulings of the Chair

Economy: use of budget reconciliation to fight inflation, reduce prescription drug and health care costs, address climate change, increase tax fairness, and reduce deficit (H.R. 5376), S4197 [6AU]

Statements

Heritage Tech Policy Experts Applaud House Antitrust Package: Heritage Foundation, H8258 [29SE]

Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act: Executive Office of the President, H8255 [29SE]

——— Senators Klobuchar and Durbin, Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), H8259 [29SE]

Tables

Distributional effects of certain Inflation Reduction Act provisions: Committee on Taxation (Joint), H7655–H7657 [12AU]

Testimonies

Safeguarding American Consumers—Fighting Frauds and Scams During the Pandemic: William E. Kovacic, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House), H8260 [29SE]

Texts of

H. Res. 1316, consideration of Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, H7561 [12AU]

H. Res. 1396, consideration of H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8170 [28SE]

H.R. 3843, Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, H8252 [29SE]

H.R. 5376, Inflation Reduction Act, H7577–H7646 [12AU]

S. 4105, Supply Chain Disruptions Relief Act, S10102 [22DE]

S. 5141, Corporate Crime Database Act, S6861 [29NO]