In This Issue:

- Tax Reform: An Insider's View

- A Deep Divide Over Corporate Tax Reform

- The Current Economic State: An Insider's View

- K&S Thought Leadership Event on the 3rd Anniverary of Dodd-Frank

- Financial Services Policy: Dodd-Frank Implementation and the Future of GSEs

- Immigration Pushed Untilthe Fall in the House

- Obamacare: A Congress Divided Between Implementation and Repeal

- Congress Inching Toward Another Budget Stalemate

- Ways and Means Conducts Hearing on Trade with Brazil

- Appropriations Process Grinds to a Halt

- Recent Congressional Efforts on Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

- Excerpt from Ways and Means Conducts Hearing on Trade with Brazil:

Following Vice President Biden's trip to Brazil in May 2013, U.S. Brazilian trade relations were discussed a Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing on June 12, 2013. At that hearing, Chairman Devin Nunes declared his intention to draft a bill to elevate and streamline various existing U.S. Brazilian bilateral dialogues into one overarching Strategic Economic Dialogue.