Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released the following statement in reaction to the President’s announced middle-class agenda: “What will help middle-class families most is creating jobs and reducing the unemployment rate, but these proposals won’t do either. Moreover, if these proposals are coupled with higher taxes or more mandates on small… Read more

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 recent claims of state-by-state job creation with the actual change in state payroll employment through December 2009, using data announced today by the U.S. Department of Labor.  According to today’s data, 49 States have lost… Read more

In yet another indication that President Obama and Congressional Democrats’ “stimulus”plan has failed, the most recent Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims data released this morning by the U.S. Department of Labor show almost 12 million Americans claimed UI benefits for the most recent week of full data. This is an increase of almost 4 million since Democrats in Congress sent President… Read more

Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Representative Dan Boren (D-OK) today sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, asking him to confirm that the Administration is monitoring comprehensively the economy-wide effects of the recently imposed tariffs on tire imports from China. Brady stated: “I am concerned that the… Read more

While the White House keeps changing their job-calculation methods in a desperate effort to claim their so-called stimulus bill is working, Americans are still asking: Where are the jobs? Facts are facts. Last year, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats spent nearly $1 trillion we don’t have on a misguided, wasteful and ineffective stimulus package. At the time, Democrats… Read more

Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today unanimously passed H.R. 4462, legislation that would allow individuals who make charitable contributions to victims of the earthquake in Haiti 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 legislation also includes a… Read more

Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) today joined Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) in sending a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, expressing frustration with Taiwan’s undoing of an October 2009 bilateral protocol regarding market access for U.S. beef and beef product exports… Read more

Washington, DC –Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement on Massachusetts voters’ referendum on the Democrats’ government takeover of health care in the historic election of Republican Scott Brown in one of the most liberal states in the nation: “Tonight’s election further echoed the loud opposition of the American people to the Democrats’ trillion dollar… Read more

Data from the non-partisan analysts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that by 2019 more than 1 in 5 workers would be affected by an unprecedented new tax on health benefits included in the Senate-passed Democrat health bill.  And that figure (1 in 5 workers being affected) will grow quickly over time.   Numerous media reports indicate that during their… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) joined Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-SC) and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) in announcing their intent to introduce legislation that would allow individuals who make charitable contributions to victims of the earthquake in Haiti to claim an itemized charitable… Read more