Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued a joint statement saying all three pending trade agreements would pass the House with bipartisan support if the White House agreed to act on all three.  The statement comes on the heels of a press conference by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Finance Committee… Read more

Today's hearing is about how the government can use data and information technology to better prevent fraud and abuse, increase the efficiency of benefit programs, and produce savings for U.S. taxpayers. That’s an ambitious set of goals.    We will start by asking about how current efforts to use data and technology are working to improve program administration and benefit accuracy. … Read more

Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - Social Security is the most solvable. Back-of-an-envelope solvable: Raise the retirement age, tweak the indexing formula (from wage inflation to price inflation) and means-test so that Warren Buffett's check gets redirected to a… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius late Thursday afternoon, expressing a wide range of concerns regarding the findings of an independent audit of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conducted by Ernst & Young.  The… Read more

In another admission that the Democrats’ health care law is unworkable, the Obama Administration announced today rules that states must follow to ask for the Administration's permission beginning in 2017, in order to “opt out” of the bulk of the health care law.  The announcement comes on the heels of news earlier this week that the Obama Administration granted the state of Maine a waiver… Read more

Congressman Pat Tiberi, (R-OH), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the tax code’s treatment of abortion-related expenses and the changes to such tax treatment proposed by section 2 of H.R. 3 – the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act – as ordered reported by the House… Read more

Washington, DC - Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) indicated that he favors the House-passed version of legislation to protect small businesses from a new onerous, job-destroying 1099 tax reporting mandate to the version approved by the Senate.  In response, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) urged the Senate to pass and send the house-passed jobs bill to… Read more

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Congressman Dave Camp (R-Michigan), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius calling her allegations about Medicare Advantage in the House passed spending reduction measure “baseless.” March 9,… Read more

Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey stopped by our offices Monday, and along the way he had a question: Why won't President Obama go for a quick and relatively easy bipartisan victory by moving the trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea through Congress? We'll get to our answer in a moment, but Mr. Toomey isn't the only one asking. Late last week an extraordinary collection of 19… Read more

In case you missed it, please see the article from The Hill detailing evidence from the Administration that it has granted more than 1,000 waivers from various portions of the Democrats’ health care law.  Of particular interest is that the title on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website that describes those who have received the waivers -- “Helping Americans Keep the… Read more