Retirement issues will likely dominate the House Ways and Means Committee’s agenda ahead of the midterms, with bipartisan hope for legislation on employer-sponsored saving plans and the panel’s top Republican set to depart Congress after 26 years.
The retirement proposal could be combined with some expired pieces of the Republican-led 2017 tax law to form the foundation of a bipartisan tax package. But the committee’s full 2022 agenda is in limbo while Democrats attempt to advance a tax and spending package using the budget reconciliation process.
President Joe Biden this week acknowledged that the reconciliation package, which includes a ...