Next month, we will mark five years since the United States and Colombia signed a trade agreement.  Yet that agreement and our agreements with Panama and South Korea still are not in force, at great cost to U.S. workers and job-creating exporters.  Although we were forced to wait for far too long, I am very pleased that President Obama submitted these agreements to Congress on… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement today after the pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea were favorably reported out of Committee, thus clearing the way for formal consideration on the House floor: “Today has been five years in the making and could not come at a better time for American workers,… Read more

The United States Supreme Court starts its new term today and the Court is expected to hear and issue a landmark opinion that will determine, “whether the federal government can issue a mandate that Americans purchase and maintain health insurance from a private company for the entirety of their lives." While Democrats are already politicizing and trying to trivialize this critical… Read more

President Barack Obama’s latest jobs plan ignores the obvious: That part of the reason for the lack of investment and job growth in the nation is the uncertainty and disincentives engendered by the president’s own policies. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health-care overhaul that Obama pushed through Congress in the face of widespread and persistent public… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Obama transmitted to Congress the trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea: Chairman Camp stated: “The American people have waited a long time for these job-creating trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South… Read more

Washington, DC – Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Geoff Davis (R-KY) issued the following statement after attending today's presidential signing ceremony at the White House for H.R. 2883, The Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act: "I commend the President for signing The Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act into law.  This law has… Read more

The President recently claimed that the Obama Administration has, “cut taxes for small business 16 times since I’ve been in office.”  However, as the Washington Post’s Fact Check reveals, that claim doesn’t ring true, noting that the President has, “repeatedly proposed increased income taxes on such businesses.” The fact check highlights specific inaccuracies with the President’s… Read more

Then In 2010, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that unemployment insurance “is one of the biggest stimuluses [sic] to our economy….It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative that you can name.” Now Unfortunately, Ms. Pelosi forgot that there is no such thing as a free lunch and employers end up paying higher taxes.  As today’s Wall Street… Read more

Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation released its annual Health Benefits Survey, confirming yet again that President Obama broke his campaign promise to reduce health care premiums by $2,500.  The report finds that health care premiums in the workplace have increased 9 percent, or over $1,200 for an average American family, in the year following enactment of some of the earliest… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) called on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to suspend the proposed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulation that would require banks to disclose interest paid to nonresident aliens.  In a letter to Secretary Geithner, Boustany wrote that if implemented, the regulation would potentially drive foreign… Read more