Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the use of psychotropic medications among children in foster care. The hearing will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, 2014, in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
In view of the…
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Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) released the following statements after the House passed H.R. 4058, the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Improving Opportunities for Youth in Foster Care Act.
Chairman Camp: “It is unacceptable that foster care is leaving youth vulnerable…
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While it operated, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program provided record amounts of financial assistance to over 24 million long-term unemployed individuals. The EUC program provided record weeks of unemployment benefits per person (a total of up to 99 weeks of all unemployment benefits in many states, far eclipsing the norm of up to 52 weeks), a record duration…
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First, Democrats promised their trillion-dollar stimulus plan would create millions of jobs. It didn’t.
Democrat projection of job creation after 2009 stimulus: +3.675 million (through December 2010)
Actual change in jobs after 2009 stimulus: -2.530 million (through December 2010, or 6.2 million fewer jobs than projected)
Next, Democrats promised…
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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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According to data from the Department of Labor, the U.S. has spent an estimated $26.0 billion in error on Federal extended Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits since the temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program was created in July 2008. Given the record scale of the EUC program, this is in all likelihood the largest amount of misspending under any such temporary…
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Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement:
“Today, I am announcing that I will not seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives. This decision was reached after much consideration and discussion with my family.
“Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the…
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The Federal Extended Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program expired in December, after providing record amounts of financial assistance to over 24 million long-term unemployed individuals. History shows the EUC program provided for record weeks of unemployment benefits per person (a total of up to 99 weeks of all UI benefits in many states, far eclipsing the norm of up to 52…
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Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. The hearing will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office…
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