Washington, DC – The House Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees today released an updated version of the ObamaCare Burden Tracker (#ObamaCareBurden), which reveals the burden on employers and families has increased to almost 190 million hours. The Burden Tracker, first released in February, is a real-time, online resource to help the public…
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Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., M.D., (R-LA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s (“IRS”) Colleges and Universities Compliance Project Final Report. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Room 1100 of the Longworth House…
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Welcome to the Subcommittee on Oversight’s annual hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s operations and budget.
Just last week, million of taxpayers across America scrambled to meet their tax filing obligations by April 15. That was no easy feat. Every year, taxpayers face a tax code of growing complexity. Indeed, there have been nearly 5,000 changes…
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Good morning. We are meeting today to consider H.R. 807, the “Full Faith and Credit Act,” introduced by Congressman McClintock earlier this year. I will be offering an amendment in the nature of a substitute to ensure that the United States never defaults on a debt payment.
In February of this year, the President signed into law H.R. 325, the “No Budget, No Pay Act,”…
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Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., M.D., (R-LA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the 2013 tax return filing season. The hearing will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building,…
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Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steve Miller inquiring about IRS employees leaving their official duties to attend union training conferences on the taxpayer’s dime.
Recently, the IRS informed its employees that, due to sequestration, five to seven…
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Washington, DC – Today, Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) wrote to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steve Miller regarding reports that the IRS is searching through taxpayer emails, text messages and social media to compile information without a warrant.
Boustany requested the IRS provide its privacy policies and…
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The Committee on Ways and Means has jurisdiction over federal government borrowing, as well as the Treasury Department’s debt management practices and the debt limit. The Founders vested the power to borrow money exclusively in the Legislative Branch. Since the Founders’ time, Congress has repeatedly exercised that power by authorizing the Executive Branch to borrow funds on the country’s…
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