• Extend for one year the 50 percent bonus depreciation allowing businesses to write off the entire cost of major purchases in the year they are made rather than depreciate those expenses over many years.
• Retroactively renew a package of one- or two-year reauthorizations of tax “extenders,” which range from a credit for business research and development expenses to a state and local sales tax deduction that the Senate Finance Committee adopted in August (S 3521) with bipartisan support.
Rep. Bill Cassidy has his blood drawn by Alesha Barbour during a free hepatitis screening in the Rayburn House Office Building hosted by the Congressional Viral Hepatitis Caucus to recognize "National Viral Hepatitis Testing Day."
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