Washington, DC -  Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement in response to the Senate Finance Committee’s approval of legislation that grants Russia permanent normal trade relations.      “I welcome the news that the Finance Committee was able to pass bipartisan Russia PNTR legislation today and will carefully study… 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

Last week, the Obama Administration took action to dismantle the work requirement that was central to the success of the bipartisan 1996 welfare reforms.  As the data below shows, that action will undo policies that have led to more work and earnings and less welfare dependence and poverty among low-income Americans.   Since the work-based 1996 welfare… Read more

Washington, DC - Despite a weak economy and lackluster job numbers, President Obama continues to call for tax increases on small businesses, the engine of job creation.  A new report released today by Ernst & Young finds the President’s tax increases will hurt the economy and cost more than 700,000 American jobs.   In response to the report, Ways and Means… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) and Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman requesting detailed information on the IRS’s information technology (IT) budget. With a budget request of $2.5 billion for IT in FY 2013, the Members requested a full accounting from… Read more

Despite former-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the Democrats’ health care law would create “400,000 jobs almost immediately,” a new study revealed that over 70 percent of small businesses cite the health care law as a major obstacle to job creation.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Q2 Small Business Study of over 1,200 small business executives also found that… Read more

The headline of an Associated Press article this morning tells Americans everything they need to know about how President Obama and the Democrats who control Washington feel about taxes: “Democrats willing to risk tax hike for all.”   What does their recklessness mean for the American people?  According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the willingness of Democrats to… Read more

Seventy-three House Republican freshmen wrote to President Obama expressing their commitment to work with him to grant Russia permanent normal trade relations so that the United States can expand export opportunities and job growth.  Next month, Russia will join the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the United States must act quickly to take advantage of economic opportunities… Read more

“The Obama administration has quietly opened the door for states to seek major changes in how they meet federal welfare-to-work requirements….What started out as just another bureaucratic memorandum drew a swift rebuke from one of the authors of welfare reform, as… Read more

Welfare to work is the cornerstone of a reform passed in 1996 by a Republican Congress and signed by Bill Clinton. The Obama administration on Thursday announced it was taking steps to gut this landmark law. The theory behind welfare reform was people on government assistance not only should work towards getting a job but actually want one. The law is credited… Read more