Washington, DC- Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Republican members of the subcommittees for the 113th Congress.  The announcement comes a day after the Republican Steering Committee named the Committee’s final Republican Member, Congressman Jim Renacci (R-OH). “I congratulate the new and returning Members of each of the… Read more

Tomorrow, the President will describe the state of the union, including the state of the economy for workers and families.  Americans are likely to hear more of the same from recent years – how Administration policies (1) laid a new foundation for future growth, (2) saved or created millions of jobs, and even (3) prevented another Depression.  Despite the lofty rhetoric,… Read more

On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report that predicts that the unemployment rate will remain close to 8 percent through the end of this year.  That’s the same level the Obama Administration predicted the unemployment rate would max out at in mid-2009, back when they were trying to sell their trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan to Congress… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Orrin Hatch (R-UT) again called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to explain how the agency determined it had the unilateral authority to waive welfare work requirements first established in the historic 1996 welfare reform law.  The… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the January jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor.  A net total of 157,000 jobs were created, and the unemployment rate for January increased to 7.9 percent.   “This report and the fact that GDP was negative in the 4th quarter confirms just how… Read more

In February 2009, President Obama signed the Democrats’ $1 trillion stimulus plan into law.  As shown in their infamous January 2009 Romer-Bernstein Report (officially titled “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan”), the Obama Administration predicted that with their stimulus plan the unemployment rate would remain below 8 percent and ultimately fall to 5.2… Read more

Today, the Obama Administration announced that they would shut down the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.  But will Americans really miss it?  When it did meet, the President largely ignored the council’s most substantive recommendations.  And now the council hasn’t met in over a year.  In fact, here’s what happened to jobs and unemployment since the… Read more

  Tameria Greene of Detroit should have celebrated her ninth birthday on January 2. Instead, her family was preparing for her funeral after she was fatally stabbed on December 30. Although the death of any child is tragic, Tameria's is especially heartbreaking. On her birthday, authorities charged her mother -- the very person who should have cared for her most -- with… Read more

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