Yesterday, the Social Security Board of Trustees – folks who provide us with the results of Social Security’s annual financial check-up – again sounded the alarm over Social Security’s financial health.
Unless Congress does its job, full benefits can’t be paid on time beginning in just two years for those receiving disability benefits. Further, when today’s 48- year old…
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Good afternoon. Welcome to today’s hearing on advancing our trade agenda and trade with Africa. Before hearing from our witnesses, I’d like to make three points.
First, we are committed to a seamless, bipartisan renewal of AGOA well before its expiration in 15 months. Congressman Rangel and I worked closely in developing this hearing – having jointly selected all the witnesses…
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Today we will hear testimony regarding the Medicare Advantage program. We will hear about these private plans that are chosen by increasing numbers of seniors. We will hear how these private plans can combine high quality and low costs.
We will look at the future of this popular program and ask, when the scheduled cuts to Medicare Advantage plans in the Affordable…
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Good morning and welcome to this morning’s hearing on the integrity of insurance premium subsidies under the President’s health care law. Last month, this Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Health held a hearing that showed the Administration’s failure to implement effective eligibility verification systems would result in billions of dollars in improper payments going out the door,…
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We all can agree that funding improvements to the nation’s infrastructure is vitally important to creating economic growth and promoting commerce. An important feature of our tax reform discussion draft would provide enough revenue to maintain the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund for eight years.
Americans deserve to know that as they travel around town, go to work or…
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Thank you Mr. Chairman for the opportunity to speak here today, and for all of your work on behalf of taxpayers across the country. It’s a well-known fact that the cost of education is climbing, and that for too many, the ability to save and pay for college without ending up under a mountain of debt is simply out of reach. Today’s broken tax code does little to ease that…
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We have a nation that is struggling to make ends meet. The families I talk to back home – whether at the grocery store or in church – are fed up with a new normal where Americans are paying more for everything, while taking home less. Costs for everyday essentials such as gas, groceries, and electricity all continue to rise while household incomes remain stagnant. …
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Good morning. Over three years ago, this Committee started asking the IRS:
was it targeting conservatives for their beliefs;
was it asking groups inappropriate questions; and,
was it harassing conservative donors.
The IRS assured this Committee, and even testified before Congress, time and time again, that no targeting was occurring.…
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I would like to welcome back the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee. Neither MedPAC nor its witness here today, Executive Director, Mark Miller, is a stranger to the Committee. MedPAC is a key, non-partisan advisor with a lot of analytical firepower. There is bi-partisan interest in its work.
MedPAC issues two reports annually to the Congress. Its…
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Good morning. Welcome to today’s hearing on the benefits of expanding U.S. agriculture trade and eliminating barriers to agriculture exports – key factors in advancing our trade agenda and creating U.S. jobs and economic opportunity. I’d like to make four points.
First, the United States must remain the world’s leading agriculture exporter. We excel at producing and exporting a wide…
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