I rise today in strong support of H.R. 325, the “No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013.”   This legislation directs members of the House and Senate to adopt a budget resolution by April 15, 2013.  If either body does not, members of that body will have their pay withheld until they pass a budget.  It’s simple: no budget, no pay.  The American people understand that they… Read more

Good afternoon.  Thank you for joining us today for the first full committee hearing  of the 113th Congress.   The topic of today’s hearing is the debt limit, which has increased higher and faster under President Obama than any President in our nation’s history.  Since the President first took office in 2009, there have been four increases in the statutory debt… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Chairmen of the subcommittees for the 113th Congress. “I congratulate the new and returning Chairmen of each of the subcommittees,” said Camp.  “The Committee faces a very busy Congress as we work to make our economy stronger and healthier.  Achieving that goal includes making the… Read more

A new survey out today from the Job Creators Alliance echoes the call for comprehensive tax reform made by the House, the Senate and the White House.  Amongst the findings, the survey reveals that small businesses identified taxes as “the single most important issue facing small businesses,” with respondents voluntarily citing taxes twice as often as any other issue.… Read more

Today, the National Taxpayer Advocate issued its 2012 Annual Report to Congress.  Key findings include: It takes U.S. taxpayers (both individuals and businesses) more than 6.1 billion hours to complete tax filings. For 2010, the Taxpayer Advocate estimated that it cost individual and corporate taxpayers $168 billion to comply with the code. Today’s tax code… Read more

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge what a colleague from Georgia called a “legacy vote” – making permanent the tax cuts Republicans enacted back in 2001 and 2003.  I couldn’t agree more and let me say why – because we are making PERMANENT tax policies REPUBLICANS originally crafted.   Now, back then, despite having a majority in the House, a majority in the Senate and a… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today released the following statement after voting to permanently extend Republican tax cuts originally enacted in 2001. “Over a decade ago, Republicans acted to provide working Americans with substantial tax relief.  That tax relief included lower tax rates, an enhanced child tax credit and relief from the… Read more

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Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sent a letter to heads of the Business Roundtable and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) responding to the President  Obama’s call for a corporate tax reform only approach to tax reform as a means of averting the fiscal… Read more

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