Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement reacting to the President’s FY2011 budget which calls for $46 trillion in spending over the next decade: "This budget features too many new taxes, too much new spending and too much new debt, all of which will discourage hiring and further reduce Americans’ job security. While I am glad to see the… Read more

Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement reacting to the President’s jobs plan as outlined in his remarks to House Republicans: “The waste and focus on government spending in the Democrats' $1 trillion stimulus did nothing to prevent a record 12 million Americans from receiving unemployment checks instead of paychecks as the U.S. unemployment… Read more

Democrats promised their 2009 stimulus law would get people back to work and jumpstart the economy. A look at the facts, however, tells a different story. As we approach the one-year anniversary of passage of the stimulus bill 49 out of 50 states have actually LOST jobs.  On January 26, 2010, the Congressional Budget Office revealed that this failure to create jobs has raised the… Read more

Washington DC- Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released to the following statements in response to President Obama’s call for increasing exports of American goods: Rep. Camp statement: “As for trade, actions speak louder than words.  Over the past year, this Administration and Democrats in Congress have done little to… Read more

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health, and Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Trade, issued the following remarks regarding a letter they sent to President Obama on his changing positions on prescription drug importation: Rep. Herger said, “Since taking office, President Obama has… Read more

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Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in reaction to the President’s State of the Union: “Americans aren’t looking for another good speech; they are looking for a good job.  Unfortunately, tonight we got another speech instead of a concrete plan that will create jobs.  When you add the tax increases that are expected to be in the… Read more

Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), along with House Republican Leaders, Ranking Members of Energy & Commerce and Education & Labor, and Rep. Buchanan (R-FL) today sent a letter to President Obama asking that he ensure that any further health care negotiations be transparent and televised on C-SPAN as he promised, rather than conducted behind closed doors between… Read more

Washington, DC – Following a spate of weekend interviews in which Administration officials confusingly cited wildly different numbers in an attempt to claim the Democrats’ “stimulus” bill was a success, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released data showing the Obama Misery Index (the combined change in the nation’s public debt and unemployment since the President took… Read more

President Obama, in an interview with Diane Sawyer, attempted to clarify his role in the health care legislative debate but rewrote history in doing so. Regardless of his assertions, the reality is President Obama was Chief Dealmaker, making sweetheart deals behind closed doors with the most powerful health care lobbyists in Washington.* Here are Three of the Major Backroom Deals… Read more