Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today criticized House Democrats’ refusal to pay for needed unemployment benefits and sending a bill to the Senate that has no hope of passage.  The Senate’s rejection of an unpaid-for extension of unemployment benefits yesterday caused the Associated Press to label today’s House action as a “futile gesture.” “The Democrats… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced the promotions of Jill Schmalz to Senior Professional Staff and Sarah Swinehart to Press Secretary. “I want to congratulate Jill and Sarah on their hard-earned promotions,” said Camp.  “They provide significant contributions to the Ways and Means Committee to the benefit of our members and the entire House… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) applauded the efforts of fellow committee member Dave Reichert (R-WA) to launch a bipartisan U.S.- South Korea Trade Agreement working group. “Now that the President has announced a process to consider the U.S.- South Korea trade agreement,  Congress and the administration must work closely together and in a… Read more

Unfortunately, no amount of sunscreen or Aloe will relieve the pain of the Democrats’ impending 10 percent tax on indoor tanning beds,which goes into effect tomorrow, July 1.  This $2.7 billion tax will hit tens of thousands of small businesses and consumers and is just one of the many of the $569,000,000,000 in new health care taxes that violate the President’s promise not to raise taxes… Read more

What has changed since yesterday?  Nothing.  And, certainly not the Democrats’ willingness to pay for government spending.  So, just as we did yesterday, we have a bill before us that will increase the federal deficit by $34 billion. Let me be clear – I support and Republicans have supported extending unemployment benefits, but we must not do so at a cost to the deficit, to the economy… Read more

Here we go again.  Another month, another bill extending unemployment benefits and extending the federal deficit. Only this time the Democrats have now waited almost an entire month since these programs last expired to come up with a plan for how to extend them, leaving hundreds of thousands of long-term unemployed people without needed benefits.  And, it is all because Democrats… Read more

As the New York Times noted, the new high-risk pool program — something the Obama Administration has desperately hyped in an effort to boost low approval ratings for its health care law — is so under-funded that it will cover “fewer than 10 percent of those denied health insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions."  According to the New York Times:  Insufficient Funds… Read more

Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today made the following statements in reaction to the President’s announcement concerning the pending US-South Korea Trade Promotion Agreement. CAMP: “ I welcome the news that the President is setting up a process to resolve the outstanding issues surrounding the U.S.-South Korea… Read more

Among the ironies of President Obama's style is that he regularly denounces big business even as big business has been one of his closest allies. But that may change, at least judging by the Business Roundtable's high-profile second thoughts on Tuesday. "We see a host of laws, regulations and other policies being enacted that impose a government prescription of how individual industries… Read more

To listen to President Barack Obama, corporate America is a juggernaut, a force of calculating capitalists who ceaselessly plot against his national reforms. To listen to Ivan Seidenberg is to wish the president were even a little right. Mr. Seidenberg, officially Verizon's CEO, moonlights as chairman of the influential Business Roundtable, the "association of chief executive officers of… Read more