Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced the promotions of Jill Schmalz to Senior Professional Staff and Sarah Swinehart to Press Secretary. “I want to congratulate Jill and Sarah on their hard-earned promotions,” said Camp.  “They provide significant contributions to the Ways and Means Committee to the benefit of our members and the entire House… Read more

What has changed since yesterday?  Nothing.  And, certainly not the Democrats’ willingness to pay for government spending.  So, just as we did yesterday, we have a bill before us that will increase the federal deficit by $34 billion. Let me be clear – I support and Republicans have supported extending unemployment benefits, but we must not do so at a cost to the deficit, to the economy… Read more

Here we go again.  Another month, another bill extending unemployment benefits and extending the federal deficit. Only this time the Democrats have now waited almost an entire month since these programs last expired to come up with a plan for how to extend them, leaving hundreds of thousands of long-term unemployed people without needed benefits.  And, it is all because Democrats… Read more

As the Washington Post today reported, the chairman of the Business Roundtable “accused the president and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday of creating an ‘increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation.’” In a letter from the Business Roundtable and The Business Council to Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, these business leaders stated that policies… Read more

Despite the Administration’s declaration that this is the “Summer of Recovery,” data released today by the U.S. Department of Labor, and the chart below, show that virtually the entire country is experiencing a yet another season of continued unemployment. Through May 2010, the latest data available, a total of 48 out of 50 states have seen a net job loss since the President signed the… Read more

Fathers play an enormous role in their children’s lives, every day of the year.  Yet an increasing number of fathers are absent from their families, contributing to school dropout, poverty, crime, and other ills, as we will hear today. To counteract those trends, 1996 reforms let States spend welfare funds on “healthy marriage” and “responsible fatherhood” programs; and 2006 amendments… Read more

Today’s hearing is on “responding to long-term unemployment.”  The real topic should be “why have current policies caused long-term unemployment.” Americans were promised the 2009 stimulus plan would create 3.7 million jobs.  Instead it was followed by another 2.7 million private sector job losses.  Vice President Biden recently admitted that at best we would fall 6 million jobs short of… Read more

CHRISTINA ROMER, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers:  “By mid-2010, fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to growth.” (October 22, 2009) LARRY SUMMERS, Director of the National Economic Council: “Given fiscal lag, the Recovery Act is still gaining force and having increasing impact.” (June 8, 2010) Source: “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and… Read more

Washington, DC – With understandably little fanfare and late on Friday night during a Congressional recess, the U.S. Treasury Department met its legal obligation to issue its “Annual Report on Public Debt.”  The document, which came out on the same day the Labor Department reported virtually no private sector jobs were created last month, contained more bad news for the American… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released the statement below in reaction to the severely disappointing May jobs report.  The monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that 96 percent of the jobs created in the country last month were a result of Census Bureau hiring – jobs that are temporary and will be eliminated within weeks. “This is… Read more