1776 COALITION 05/27/2015

Bernie Sanders: A 90% tax rate sounds fine to me This week Vermont Senator and self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders sat down with CNBC’s John Harwood for an interview on the issues facing all the 2016 candidates. Sanders is technically running for President, and is at least keeping up the public... Read More House bill would make vodka, whiskey and rum cheaper House Republican Todd Young (Ind.) has introduced legislation to reduce the excise tax on vodka, rum, gin and whiskey. Excise taxes are paid when purchases are made on a specific good and often included in the price of the product.... Read More GOP senators call for over-the-counter birth control Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is leading a new push to allow women to buy birth control without a prescription, hoping to deliver on one of the biggest promises of his freshman Senate campaign last year. A half-dozen Senate Republicans have... Read More D.C. asks that gun-carrying restriction remain in effect D.C. officials have asked a judge to let the city enforce a central element of its restrictive concealed-carry law — the requirement that handgun owners demonstrate a “good reason” for a permit to carry — while a lawsuit over the... Read More Even in flood-prone Houston, 11 inches of rain catches many unprepared The Tuckers thought they were prepared. The couple knew they lived in a flood-prone area: the Meyerland neighborhood, near Brays Bayou. That’s why, when they built their two-story brick home 27 years ago, they elevated it 3 feet, higher than... Read More Japan to join U.S., Australia war games amid growing China tensions Japan will join a major U.S.-Australian military exercise for the first time in a sign of growing security links between the three countries as tensions fester over China's island building in the South China Sea. While only 40 Japanese officers... Read More