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‘Me Too’ Hollywood March Takes A Stand Against Sexual Abuse

Participants march against sexual assault and harassment at the #MeToo March in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017.
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Chairman: House won’t agree to nix property tax deduction

By KEVIN FREKING complicate the effort. worked with lawmakers in
Associated Press Among the biggest differ- those states to ensure the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ences in the two bills that House bill “delivers this re-
chairman of the House’s have emerged: the House lief” and that he was com-
tax-writing committee said bill allows homeowners to mitted to ensuring it stays in
Sunday that he’s confi- deduct up to $10,000 in the final package.
dent that chamber won’t property taxes while the Both the House and Senate
go along with the Senate’s Senate proposal unveiled bill would eliminate deduc-
proposal to eliminate the by GOP leaders last week tions for state and local in-
deduction for property eliminates the entire de- come taxes and sales taxes
taxes, setting up a major duction. paid. Sen. Chuck Schumer,
flashpoint as Republicans The deduction is particu- D-N.Y., said in response to
aim to put a tax cut bill on larly important to residents Brady’s pledge that Re-
President Donald Trump’s in states with high property publicans should fully re-
desk before Christmas. values or tax rates, such as House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, store what is referred to as
The GOP is moving urgently New Jersey, Illinois, Cali- R-Texas, left, joined by Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the ranking the SALT deduction, or mil-
to push forward on the first fornia and New York. Rep. member, and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., offers his manager’s lions of middle-class fami-
rewrite of the U.S. tax code Kevin Brady, chairman of amendment as the GOP tax bill debate enters the final stage, on lies would end up paying
in three decades, but key the House Ways and Means Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. higher federal income tax-
differences promise to Committee, said that he Associated Press es, not less.q