Bloomberg Tax
Jan. 14, 2019, 1:54 PM UTC

Neal Needs Steady Hand to Steer New Progressive Tax Writers

Kaustuv Basu
Kaustuv Basu
Reporter
Lydia O'Neal
Lydia O'Neal
Reporter

Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal is days into his new role and has a challenge ahead: balancing the ambitions of the committee’s new progressive members with the vision of its more moderate lawmakers.

Of the 10 new members named to the tax-writing panel the week of Jan. 7, five members are part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a faction that could potentially pose legislative challenges as Neal, a Democrat from Massachusetts, starts setting the committee’s agenda.

The five lawmakers—Don Beyer (Va.), Dwight Evans (Pa.), Steven Horsford (Nev.), Gwen Moore and Jimmy Panetta (Calif.)—have joined existing members like Ways ...

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