• House passes tax reform, puts pressure on Senate (Washington Examiner)

• Senate Finance Committee advances Republican tax plan on party-line vote (The Washington Times)

• Corruption trial of Democrat U.S. Senator Menendez ends in mistrial (Reuters)

• New gun bill urges everyone to obey the other gun bills (Reason)

• Resistance royalty: Pelosi, Soros headline Left’s biggest dark money conference (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Congressional Hispanic Caucus rejects Congressman Curbelo for being Republican (National Review)

• Clinton voters say economy biggest challenge to families, Trump voters say culture (The Washington Free Beacon)

• FCC plans December vote to kill net neutrality rules (Bloomberg)

• Keystone oil leak in South Dakota as Nebraska weighs XL Permits (Reuters)

• NFL steps into politics (again), fights tax cut bill with no stadium bond breaks (The Washington Times)

• Humor: In grievous spelling error, child sends Christmas letter to Satan (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Don’t pick a new head for CFPB — close it down instead (Investor’s Business Daily)

• Policy: Zimbabwe’s coup, Venezuela’s default, and the ongoing failure of socialism (Investor’s Business Daily)

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