Senate Budget Committee to Hold Hearing on Wasteful Tax Expenditures

The Senate Budget Committee, chaired by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), will hold a hearing on March 5 entitled, “Reducing the Deficit by Eliminating Wasteful Spending in the Tax Code.” The witnesses are Edward D. Kleinbard, Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law and former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation; Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; and Russell Roberts, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution.The hearing announcement says that the focus of the hearing will be “making sure we are tackling the deficit in a balanced and fair manner and calling on the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations to pay their fair share, rather than solely by cutting programs that are critical to families, seniors, and communities nation-wide.” The hearing will be at 10:30am in Room 608 of the Dirksen Senate office building.