Thank you for coming to today’s hearing on the new Federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program. Someone apparently thought naming a program M-I-E-C-H-V made sense. But fortunately, at least the pronunciation of this acronym is the relatively simple “McVee” program, so I am going to stick with that.
At its core, this program is designed to…
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Secretary Sebelius, thank you for joining us today for a discussion of the President’s 2015 Budget.
It has been four years since ObamaCare became law of the land, and it has been a bumpy road since then. Millions of Americans are paying more for health care as a result of the law, a trend which will only continue to spike as a result of the failed health care Exchange…
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Mr. Secretary, welcome back to the Committee and congratulations on your one-year anniversary as Treasury Secretary, I am sure this has been quite a year for you.
As you know, over the past three years, this Committee has been working on comprehensive tax reform so we can make the code simpler and fairer for all taxpayers. And, last week we released a draft that achieved…
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Over the past six months, this Committee has investigated the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups. Though our investigation is not complete, and the IRS still has many more documents to provide to the Committee, we have discovered a concerted effort by the IRS to limit the ability of those targeted conservative groups to operate and engage in constitutionally…
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The IRS is staffed with hardworking men and women who do a tough job, collecting $2.4 trillion in annual revenue and administering our complex and outdated tax code. But in recent years public confidence in the IRS has been shaken. In 2011, the Committee investigated rumors that the IRS was seeking to reinterpret the gift tax and apply it to donors to right-leaning social welfare…
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Good morning. As we discussed last week at our hearing, the President’s health care law drastically changed the definition of full-time work. As a result, millions of Americans are having their hours and wages cut as employers are forced to deal with the additional costs imposed by the law.
The President says that he wants to work with Congress to combat income…
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Late last spring, Hoosiers began to witness a strange phenomenon: One after another, local school corporations across the state announced they would limit the hours of hourly workers—their substitute teachers, teaching assistants, cafeteria workers, and so on—because of the provision in Obamacare’s employer mandate that defined full-time employment at 30 hours. Though the…
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Good Morning. Less than 7 months ago, the Administration announced that they would delay the employer mandate for one year. They acknowledged then what many had been saying since the law passed – the employer mandate is bad for business and, in turn, bad for American workers. While the Administration offered a brief reprieve from the employer mandate, the pain ObamaCare…
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Let me begin by saying to all my colleagues on the Subcommittee that it is with deep regret that I had to call this hearing today.
Last week we were greeted with shocking headlines. The New York Times led with, “Charges for 106 in Huge Fraud Over Disability,” and ABC News led with “New York Cops, Firefighters in Massive 9/11 Fraud, Indictment Says.”
I am outraged, but…
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For more than a decade, Congress has had to step in and prevent Medicare from cutting physician payments. The time has come for the temporary patches and trend of uncertainty to end. Now Congress must move a permanent repeal of the SGR physician payment formula, which will bring security to providers and the millions of seniors who rely on Medicare for their health care.…
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