Washington, DC – Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman requesting details about reports that the Obama Administration will give the IRS one-half billion dollars to implement the Democrats’ health care law.  In the letter, the… Read more

President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing. The study is set to be released Tuesday by Charles Blahous, a conservative policy analyst whom Obama approved… Read more

Washington, DC - The Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued the second of a two-part report identifying Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) who are considered outliers because of the number of their disability decisions rendered either favorable or unfavorable.  The report comes in response to a June 16, 2011 bipartisan request from Members of the Ways and Means Social Security… Read more

  Joe Biden Quote Did Biden say it when the U.S. unemployment rate was…? Correct Answer “The latest reports from the job market show yet another disappointingly small… Read more

Washington, DC - In a letter today, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany, M.D. (R-LA), along with Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Committee member Tom Coburn (R-OK), asked the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Marilyn Tavenner,… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) announced the commencement of the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) process.  Members wishing to introduce an MTB must do so by April 30, 2012.  The Senate Finance Committee… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in anticipation of the United States’ combined federal-state corporate tax rate becoming the highest in the industrialized world on April 1, 2012: “While the April 1 date may suggest otherwise, this is no joke or laughing matter for American employers and workers.  As of Sunday, America… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced release of the latest version of the Ways and Means “Green Book,” which is officially titled "Background Material and Data on the Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means."  This document, prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) under the direction of the… Read more

We are here today at the end of an extraordinary week in the history of the Democrats’ health care overhaul.  Last Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the law, and for three days this week the Supreme Court considered its constitutionality.  Today, the subcommittee will examine two coercive mandates at the center of the law.   Beginning in 2014, the individual… Read more

The choice is clear.  The House Republican Budget says “yes” to cutting government spending and creating jobs, while the President and Senate Democrats continue to say “no.”      ### Read more