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Read. Follow. Verify.Senate Finance Committee Hearing: Jobs and a Healthy Economy
Record date · January 1, 2016
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What This Bill Does
This document is the official transcript of the first Senate Finance Committee hearing of the , held on January 22, 2015. The session focused on discussing strategies for job creation and strengthening the national economy.
This hearing served as the inaugural policy discussion for the Senate Finance Committee in 2015, setting the agenda for economic and tax-related legislative priorities for the session.
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Business Roundtable
The organization provided testimony regarding economic policy and job creation.
Key Facts
- The hearing took place on January 22, 2015, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
- The session was the first hearing of the 114th Congress for the Senate Finance Committee.
- The hearing was titled 'Jobs and a Healthy Economy'.
- Witnesses included John Engler (Business Roundtable), Robert E. Hall (Hoover Institution), and Justin Wolfers (Peterson Institute).
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- The committee received written communications from the Coalition for GSP, Employee-owned S Corporations of America, Professional Beauty Association, and the RATE Coalition.
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