Washington, D.C. – Today, the Ways and Means Committee released draft legislation to prevent and address sex trafficking of youth in foster care.  This legislation would also improve the lives of youth in foster care by ensuring they have more normal teen opportunities and experiences, while also providing them with more tools they need to become successful adults.  The draft… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, the Senate joined the U.S. House of Representatives in passing legislation which included provisions designed to improve the collection of unemployment insurance overpayments and take steps to prevent incarcerated individuals from receiving government benefits while in jail.  Both provisions built off of legislation developed by the Human Resources… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released its unemployment report for November 2013.   “While this is a statistical improvement, it is a sad commentary on our economy that a seven percent unemployment rate is looked at as good news.  For families in Michigan, it simply isn’t… Read more

  By Conna Craig In today's dysfunctional Washington it's hard to imagine members of Congress reaching across the aisle for something beyond a sound bite. There is far too much bickering about what is and is not "affordable" and what or whom has winning power going into the elections of 2014. Its low approval… Read more

Rhetoric “A well designed recovery plan will not only create numerous jobs, but also many jobs paying good wages and providing full-time employment.” Obama Administration’s “Romer-Bernstein Report” on the supposed job effects of their trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan.   Reality "Job Gap Widens in Uneven Recovery, Split in Employment Market Undermines Broader Economic… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the September jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor.  A net total of 204,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for October increased to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent in September. “If you look at who is working and who isn’t, this is… Read more

In the wake of recessions, the Federal government typically creates a “temporary” Federal unemployment benefits program for long-term unemployed workers who have exhausted up to 26 weeks of State UI benefits.  This recession has been no different. The current “temporary” program, called Emergency… Read more

This afternoon on the Hill a 24-year-old college student and sex trafficking survivor,  Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew, shared her experiences growing up in the U.S., where she was used for money in the foster care system and ultimately forced into sex trafficking. “I spent for the most part,… Read more

Washington, DC - This morning, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement upon receiving notification from the Department of Labor (DOL) that it is instructing states to recover any overpayments to those Federal employees who received unemployment benefits as a result of the recent government shutdown, but whose pay has since been restored by… Read more

Washington, DC – In a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Burwell, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and 17 other Committee Members called on the Obama Administration to stop recently furloughed Federal employees from also collecting and keeping unemployment benefits, a… Read more