House Dem Brings Tax Chops to Committee Without Throwing ‘Bombs’

Judy Chu, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is known for forging connections with other lawmakers in a divisive time.

Chu, the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress, in 2009, scored a major tax policy win recently when Ways and Means unanimously approved a bill (H.R. 3299) she sponsored that would extend tax refund eligibility for same-sex couples who were married before the federal Defense of Marriage Act was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

That measure is now tied into a broader tax package that is one of the committee’s top priorities ...