Opening Statement Charles Boustany (R-LA) Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Oversight Hearing on IRS Operations and the 2010 Tax Return Filing Season  (Remarks as Prepared) Mr. Chairman, thank you for yielding time.  Commissioner Shulman, thank you once again for appearing before the Subcommittee.  More generally, I want to thank you and every IRS employee who works for you for… Read more

Madame Speaker, It is tough to see this bill as either a small business bill or a jobs bill.  Specifically, I have three main concerns:  It raises taxes on employers during a recession – making it tougher for Americans to find needed work.  Roughly 80 percent of the so-called tax relief in the bill is dedicated to state and local governments. Small governments are not… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today was selected by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to serve as one of three House Republicans on the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  “I want to thank Leader Boehner for naming me to the Commission,” said Camp.  “Frankly, there may be no greater or graver task we face than… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement upon the announcement that U.S. Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) will assume the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee. “I want to congratulate Sandy, though I know this is not how he or anyone would want to take over the reins of the committee.  Sandy and I have had a long and good working… Read more

Madam Speaker, Like all of my colleagues here in the House of Representatives, I was shocked and horrified by the tragedy that occurred at the IRS office in Austin, Texas, on February 18th. I especially want to offer my condolences to the family of Vernon Hunter, who lost his life in this senseless attack.  Mr. Hunter dedicated his life to serving his country, including 20 years in… Read more

Washington, DC -- Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement regarding the decision by Rep. John Linder (R-GA) not to seek reelection. "John knows more about the issues that come before the committee than most of the expert witnesses we have testify.  He is a fierce advocate for what he believes in and has been a tremendous asset to our team… Read more

Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) will deliver the weekly Republican address and will attend the White House Summit on health care next Thursday. In his address this week, Rep. Camp echoes the American people's request to reduce the cost of health care noting that, "the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projects that the Republican health care bill… Read more

While the White House keeps changing their job-calculation methods in a desperate effort to claim their so-called stimulus bill is working, Americans are still asking: Where are the jobs? Facts are facts. Last year, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats spent nearly $1 trillion we don’t have on a misguided, wasteful and ineffective stimulus package. At the time, Democrats… Read more

The “Misery Index” of the 1970s is back, but in a new and startling form.  Today, the nation’s skyrocketing debt, coupled with rapidly growing and now double-digit unemployment, has created a new “Obama Misery Index,” detailed by Ways and Means Republicans each month since June 2009.  Now Moody’s has created its own “Misery Index.”  Like the Ways and Means Republican version, the Moody’s… Read more

Mr. Chairman, thank you for yielding time.  I want to thank you for holding this hearing.  When the Ways and Means Committee and the tax code are used for purposes beyond raising the revenues necessary to fund the federal government – for instance, to pursue social and economic policy goals – the members of this Subcommittee have a responsibility to conduct oversight of those tax… Read more