The US House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines, late on 13 June, to approve an economic growth package consisting of three separate tax bills:

  • the Tax Cuts for Working Families Act (H.R. 3936)
  • the Small Business Jobs Act (H.R. 3937)
  • the Build It in America Act (H.R. 3938).

The committee also voted unanimously to advance a bill (H.R. 4004) that approves the first trade agreement signed under the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade. 

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