Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released draft legislation to fix America’s broken tax code by lowering tax rates while making the code simpler and fairer for families and job creators.  Camp’s latest draft, the “Tax Reform Act of 2014,” spurs stronger economic growth, greater job creation and puts more money in the pockets of hardworking… Read more

I rise today in support of H.R. 3865, the “Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act of 2014,” to stop the IRS and Treasury from restricting free speech activities of social welfare organizations that have been in place for over 50 years. Last May, we learned that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.  For over nine months, Committee… Read more

There have been so many changes to the tax code over the last decade – more than one every day – that the tax code is now 10 times the size of the Bible, but with none of the Good News.   I know – it seems like an old joke now – you’ve heard it a lot over the last few years.  It still gets a good laugh at home in Michigan – and when I travel around the country listening… Read more

A glimmer of hope for the economy and deficit reduction flashed from the Senate this past weekend when the new Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Ron… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to additional indictments in the Social Security Disability Insurance fraud in New York City. “Today we learned that the New York disability fraud scheme carried out by retired police officers and fire fighters was more rampant than we… Read more

Every year Americans spend more than six billion hours and $168 billion to file their returns. There have been so many changes to the tax code… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) sent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen a letter requesting that the IRS fulfill the Committee’s months-long request for all documents regarding the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups. In the letter, Chairman Camp stated that if the IRS did not comply with the request, he would be… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Obama Administration announced how it will implement the over $300 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage included in the President’s health care law.     "Americans across the country are feeling the pain of ObamaCare, and today the Administration… Read more

Washington, DC - House and Senate Committee leaders yesterday called on the administration to withdraw its proposed changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, the leaders question the legality of the proposed regulation and… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following reaction to The New York Times editorial, which endorsed IRS and Treasury Department proposed regulations that would push 501(c)(4) groups out of the public square by limiting their involvement in the most basic civic activities, like non-partisan candidate forums, get out the vote efforts and… Read more