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Hearing Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Federal Tax Policy in the Multibillion-Dollar Industry
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
VAN DUYNE, BETH "If other city councils didn't make those decisions, city managers didn't make those decisions, we wouldn't be spending hundreds of millions of dollars. So Texas Stadium was owned by the city of Irving, which meant that they didn't have to pay any property taxes on it. Sales taxes from food sales, alcohol sales in the stadium were"
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Ranked-Choice Voting: Legal Challenges and Considerations for Congress
Posts · Oct 12, 2022
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is an alternative voting system that allows voters to rank multiple candidates on a ballot in order of preference. RCV has been adopted in at least 50 jurisdictions across...
Testimony VAN DUYNE, BETH
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"If other city councils didn't make those decisions, city managers didn't make those decisions, we wouldn't be spending hundreds of millions of dollars. So Texas Stadium was owned by the city of Irving, which meant that they didn't have to pay any property taxes on it. Sales taxes from food sales, alcohol sales in the stadium were"
Testimony VAN DUYNE, BETH
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"They included everything that was spent in that city, from restaurants, from gas, from hotel. We are actually getting more money now on game days than we were when the stadium was in the city of Irving. And what we did is instead of foregoing our public transit and other things, we started investing more in our infrastructure, in our business practices. And as a result, the city of Irving has thrived. And what we did is instead of foregoing our public transit and other things, we started..."
Testimony VAN DUYNE, BETH
Full Committee Hearing on The Growing Business of Sports: Reviewing Fe...
house Ways and Means Committee · Jun 30, 2026
"I wish that this was happening 15 years ago. So before I entered into Congress, I was actually on the city council in Irving, Texas. I was mayor of Irving, Texas, and I was there when we were having all the negotiations"
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Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Nonresident Parents
Reports · Oct 18, 2021
More than 9.7 million parents in the United States did not live with one or more of their children under age 21 in 2018. Policymakers have expressed interest in these nonresident parents out of...
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U.S. Rail Transportation of Crude Oil: Background and Issues for Congress
Reports · Dec 4, 2014
North America is experiencing a boom in crude oil supply, primarily due to growing production in the Canadian oil sands and the recent expansion of shale oil production from the Bakken fields in...
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Imports and the Section 321 (De Minimis) Exemption: Origins, Evolution, and Use
Reports · Jan 31, 2025
In 1938, Congress enacted Section 321(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, (codified as amended at 19 U.S.C. §1321(a)(2)(C)) to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to waive or reduce certain...
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Terrorist Material Support: An Overview of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A and § 2339B
Reports · Aug 15, 2023
The material support statutes, 18 U.S.C. § 2339A and § 2339B, have been among the most frequently prosecuted federal anti-terrorism statutes. Section 2339A outlaws: (1) whoever (2) [knowingly]...
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Statutory Interpretation: Theories, Tools, and Trends
Reports · Mar 10, 2023
In the tripartite structure of the U.S. federal government, it is the job of courts to say what the law is, as Chief Justice John Marshall announced in 1803. When courts render decisions on the...
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Searches and Seizures at the Border and the Fourth Amendment
Reports · Mar 30, 2021
Congress has broad authority to regulate persons or items entering the United States, an authority that is rooted in its power to regulate foreign commerce and to protect the integrity of the...
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Identifying TV Political and Issue Ad Sponsors in the Digital Age
Reports · Sep 9, 2020
Since the 1930s, both Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have imposed specific requirements on the transmission of political and issue advertising by broadcasters. These rules,...
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How the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Work: An Overview
Reports · Jul 2, 2015
Sentencing for all serious federal noncapital crimes begins with the federal Sentencing Guidelines. Congress establishes the maximum penalty and sometimes the minimum penalty for every federal crime...