Welcome to our hearing today.
Before being elected to Congress, I spent over 32 years working in law enforcement in King County, Washington, becoming Sheriff in 1997. I saw firsthand the many tragedies children face when they’re not cared for by loving parents. It was in the Sheriff’s office where I first witnessed the horrors of child sex trafficking, and it convinced me we…
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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 148,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for September decreased to 7.2 percent from 7.3 percent in August.
“When nearly half of the Federal Reserve…
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I want thank the Chairman of the Human Resources Subcommittee for yielding and for his support of this very important issue. I rise in support of this legislation, which is designed to encourage the adoption of more children from foster care, among other purposes.
I have spent much of my professional career promoting adoption of children by loving parents, because…
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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 ways to improve the child welfare system to prevent sex trafficking of youth in America’s foster care system. The hearing will take place at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, in Room 1100 of the…
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“Economists say there is absolutely no evidence that part time work is going up. In fact, it’s going down. The height was in the recession. It’s going down.” (Secretary Sebelius, The Daily Show, October 7, 2013)
The Facts: Part Time Workers Are Up, Not Down
June 2009 (the last month and highest level of the…
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Washington, DC – Today, Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA), and Human Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) introduced the Promoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act.
The Promoting Adoption and Legal…
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Today’s hearing is on ending benefits for incarcerated individuals and other ways to improve the integrity of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program.
As a former Sheriff, I was shocked to read headlines about individuals in jails collecting unemployment benefits, which you might call “cash for cons.” In New Jersey, there were 20,000 inmates who collected over $24…
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Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the August jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 169,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for August decreased to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent in July.
“While some job growth is better than no job growth, the fact is…
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