This Sunday, on NBC’s Meet the Press, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that, "The President is not going to, at a time of economic crisis, raise taxes on the middle class... For middle class Americans, who have borne the brunt of this economic calamity, we're certainly not going to raise taxes on them." Too late. Since January of 2009, President Obama and Congressional… Read more

On the 18-month anniversary of the release of the Romer/Bernstein report, the table below compares the Obama Administration’s January 9, 2009 prediction for how many jobs its stimulus plan would create with what actually happened, by industry.  As the table shows, most industries have not seen even one net new job since the Administration’s stimulus plan.  The sole exceptions are… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released the following statement in reaction to the announcement that President Obama will make a recess appointment of Dr. Don Berwick as Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “There are one-half trillion dollars of cuts to the Medicare program in the Democrats’ health care law that Dr.… Read more

The new federal health-care law may pose compliance challenges for taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service, an IRS ombudsman reported Wednesday. The agency, which will be responsible for administering major aspects of health insurance finance, is neither structured nor funded to effectively oversee social programs, the National Taxpayer Advocate Service said in a news release.… Read more

CHICAGO – Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health law. That might come as a surprise to those who thought getting 32 million more people covered by health insurance would ease ER crowding. It would seem these patients would be able to get routine health care by visiting… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following reaction to today's jobs report: “It is clear that too much taxing and deficit spending by Washington Democrats has had a chilling effect on our economy.  Employers simply do not know what to expect next from Washington or how much it will cost them.  The result is an unemployment rate that is… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the U.S. won its case against the European Union for unfairly providing subsidies to Airbus which violated World Trade Organization Rules. “Yesterday’s historic victory is great news for American businesses and workers.  This case,… Read more

It is said that Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  Well, that is exactly what the Democrats are doing today – trying to pass for the third time an unpaid for extension of unemployment benefits that the Senate – and the American people – have repeatedly rejected.  In fact, just last night, the Senate again… Read more

This debate has shown the lengths Democrats will go to in order to avoid paying for any government spending – even calling the eighth extension of unemployment benefits an emergency.  One would hope even Congress could see it coming after the first seven times? We could pass this bill with broad bipartisan support if Democrats would just agree to pay for the spending.  Instead,… Read more

This Motion to Recommit on H.R. 5618 adds a provision to pay for the extended unemployment benefits proposed in the underlying bill. We think it makes sense to help long-term unemployed people and we want to do it without adding another $34 billion to the nation’s $13 trillion debt. We know that Stimulus hasn’t worked – in its wake nearly 3 million private sector jobs were lost,… Read more