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 ICYMI – RFK’s Actions Will Cost Lives 

June 20, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – This week, The New York Times reported on RFK’s increasingly dangerous actions as the supposed leader of the American people’s health and wellbeing in two blistering articles. Dr. Fiona Havers, a CDC expert who worked there for 13 years, resigned from her role as senior adviser on vaccine policy because she could no longer continue while RFK dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards in the United States. She did not mince words when she asserted, “If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die

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Alsobrooks, Scott Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Allow Federal Tax Credit for Beauty Industry Small Businesses  

June 18, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced the Small Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act. This legislation allows beauty industry small businesses, such as hair stylists, barbers, and nail technicians, to qualify for the Section 45(B) federal tax credit and provides a safe harbor for these businesses to establish procedures for tipped employees to better report their wages without attracting additional tax liability.  The beauty industry is the second largest tip-based sector but is excluded from the Section 45(B) federal tip tax credit. Currently, the tax credit is only available for the restaurant industry and

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ALSOBROOKS STATEMENT ON BIPARTISAN GENIUS ACT PASSING 

June 17, 2025 WASHINGTON, DC –  Today, Senator Alsobrooks’ bipartisan Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025 (GENIUS) Act passed the United States Senate.  Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) is an original cosponsor of the GENIUS Act alongside Senators Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Lummis (R-Wyo.).  After the Senate passed the legislation by a bipartisan vote of 68-30, Alsobrooks released the following statement:  “Today, the Senate voted to pass the bipartisan GENIUS Act, which would finally provide a commonsense regulatory framework for stablecoins.  “This bill marks a major step forward for Americans participating in the stablecoin marketplace. Stablecoins offer the promise of

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