Washington, DC – Today, Dave Camp (R-MI), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, along with Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, asked the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the Obama Administration’s recent “Information Memorandum” that waives welfare reform work requirements for the first time.  The work… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the announcement that fellow Committee member Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) will retire effective immediately.   “Geoff has been a true leader on the Committee, helping to advance welfare and unemployment reforms that help Americans get back to work. … Read more

  The Obama administration has opened the door to changes in welfare reform that could destroy it from within. Federal officials have invited states to request “waivers” of the normal rules that govern putting welfare recipients to work. They describe these rules as mere “paperwork” that gets in the way of helping… Read more

By Chairman Dave Camp President Obama recently gutted the historic and bipartisan welfare reforms of 1996. His decision to allow states to ignore the work requirement in the welfare program is not only wrong, but illegal. The bipartisan welfare reforms of the 1990s were the result of serious, tough work by a… Read more

*UPDATE: POSTPONED/NEW TIME* ALL OTHER DETAILS REMAIN THE SAME Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the use of technology to improve the administration of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program’s financial eligibility… Read more

Rhetoric "Discussing his economic policies at a fundraiser in Oakland, California, last night, President Obama, told supporters that 'we tried our plan – and it worked.'"(Washington Examiner, “Obama on the economy: ‘We tried our plan – and it worked’,” July 24, 2012) Reality    January 2009 June 2012 … Read more

  (Remarks as Prepared) Good afternoon.  In today’s hearing, we will review how technology is being used to improve the administration of the Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, program.   As the nation’s largest Federal means-tested cash assistance program, SSI is sometimes called “the other welfare.”  Last month, SSI provided checks to more than… Read more

President Obama’s Health and Human Services Department undermined the work requirement legislated in the 1996 welfare reform bill, but 83 percent of Americans disagree with the president on that position. “Most Americans think there are too many people on welfare who should not be getting it and believe overwhelmingly that those who… Read more

  Determined to destroy Bill Clinton's signature achievement, President Barack Obama's Administration has opened a loophole in the 1996 Welfare Reform legislation big enough to make the law ineffective. Its work requirement -- the central feature of the legislation -- has been diluted beyond recognition by the bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human… Read more

WASHINGTON – Today, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Michigan), Education & Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minnesota), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation, the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act, that would… Read more