Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s announcement that Democrats have decided to increase taxes on small businesses. “It was irresponsible for Democrats to allow the economic uncertainty caused by looming tax hikes to linger this long. We need private sector job growth and we need it now.  The only… Read more

This morning on CNBC, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the fact that the U.S. unemployment rate was 9.6% in October 2010 (as opposed to 10.1% in October 2009) “tells you...we’re on the right path.” Contrary to her rhetoric, the facts show that the U.S. unemployment rate has been 9.5% or above for 15 consecutive months – the longest period since the Great Depression. … Read more

Today, Democrats attempted to add another $12 billion to our nation’s debt by refusing to provide a fiscally sound way to extend Federal unemployment benefits.  Republicans have long supported aiding the unemployed, but Democrats remain adamant that the cost of these benefits be added to the country’s nearly $14 trillion debt.  Ways and Means Member Charles Boustany (R-LA) took to the… Read more

Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today delivered a speech before the Tax Council. Below are key excerpts, the full remarks can be found here.   On the election results: "Washington has turned into its own Little Shop of Horrors with Congresses past and present screaming “feed me.”  Well, on Election Day, the people delivered a message – NO… Read more

Washington, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) and Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following joint statement on trade negotiations between the U.S. and South Korea: “Further negotiations will succeed only if South Korea adopts concrete steps to open its market to U.S. exports. “While there are other unresolved issues, nowhere is this more… Read more

Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, the top House Republican on the Trade Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, released the following statement related to the U.S.-South Korea trade agreement negotiations: "I am disappointed that the outstanding auto and beef issues surrounding the U.S.-South Korea trade agreement have not been resolved. I hope that these issues… Read more

In case anyone needs another reason for extending all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, look no further than the continued difficulties in the U.S. job market.  October 2010 marked the 18th consecutive month the official U.S. unemployment rate was stuck above 9 percent.  Meanwhile, 48 out of 50 States have lost jobs since Democrats’ trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan. Yet as bad as those… Read more

Fiscal Commission members Dave Camp (R-MI), Paul Ryan (R-WI), and Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following joint statement in reaction to the preliminary proposal made by Fiscal Commission chairmen Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles: “We appreciate the leadership of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles on the Fiscal Commission, and their shared commitment to addressing our pressing fiscal… Read more

Washington, DC – Tomorrow U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, the top House Republican on the Trade Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, arrives in Japan for two days of meetings with foreign and U.S. government officials and private sector representatives at the ministerial meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Congressman Brady, who also co-chairs the… Read more

Health care costs too much in this country. Spending $1 trillion more on health care, as the Democrats' new law does, didn't reduce health care costs. In fact, it will only make matters worse. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the law will actually increase the cost of insurance for millions of families by an additional $2,000 per year by 2016. Employers… Read more