Democrats Defeat GOP Bid To Strip Expanded Superfund Taxes From Budget

House Ways & Means Committee Democrats have defeated a Republican amendment to strip expanded Superfund tax provisions from their budget reconciliation legislation, preserving language that would reinstate the expired fees on both a select group of chemicals as well as various petroleum products. The language, contained in subtitle G of the broader bill the committee will continue to mark up Sept. 15, goes beyond the bipartisan Senate-passed infrastructure bill that seeks to reinstate just the expired chemical excise taxes. As...