While the White House claims their stimulus bill “has already created or saved up to 2 million jobs,” the table below compares the White House's original projections of state-by-state job creation with the actual change in state payroll employment through January 2010, using the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Only North Dakota, Alaska and the District of Columbia have seen… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today was selected by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to serve as one of three House Republicans on the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  “I want to thank Leader Boehner for naming me to the Commission,” said Camp.  “Frankly, there may be no greater or graver task we face than… Read more

Thank you for calling this hearing today.  This Subcommittee has had five solo hearings in the last year.  The first was last March, titled “protecting lower-income families while fighting global warming.”  Our Democrat colleagues discussed their plan to create the largest welfare program in American history, called “Energy Stamps.”  That policy found its way into the House-passed… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statements in response to the President’s creation of an Export Promotion Cabinet. CAMP: “The best way to promote exports is to act on the pending trade agreements and open new markets in which we can sell American made goods and… Read more

With an unemployment rate of 9.7 percent and over 3 million jobs eliminated since Democrats’ 2009 stimulus, Americans desperately need and deserve some good news on jobs. At first blush, the suggestion by the U.S. Department of Commerce that the upcoming census could create as many as 800,000 jobs would appear to be just that. This notion was seconded in a March 9, 2010 article in The… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today the House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 4783, bipartisan legislation to allow individuals who make charitable contributions to victims of the earthquake in Chile (prior to April 15, 2010) to claim an itemized charitable deduction on their 2009 tax return instead of having to wait until next year to claim these deductions on their 2010 tax return.  The… Read more

Today, on the floor of the United States Senate, the second highest ranking Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois said:  “Anyone who would stand before you and say well, if you pass health care reform, next year's health care premiums are going down, I don't think is telling the truth. I think it is likely they would go up, but what we're trying to do is slow the rate of increase.”  (Sen.… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) and Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today introduced legislation that would allow individuals who make charitable contributions to victims of the earthquake in Chile (prior to April 15, 2010) to claim an itemized charitable deduction on their 2009 tax return instead of having to wait until next year to claim these… Read more

Washington, DC –Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued the following statements on the one-year anniversary of the Congressional termination of the NAFTA trucking pilot program, which then triggered $2.4 billion in retaliatory duties against American-made exports by Mexico: Congressman Camp said, "Record… Read more

Impact on Individual Market Premiums for a Family in 2016 Under Various Democrat Proposals According to CBO Proposal   Change in Premiums Compared to Current Law Projections   Senate Democrats’ Bill (H.R. 3590)* … Read more