White House Two Months Ago: Decline in labor force participation increases inequality (i.e. the “defining challenge of our time”) and is a sign of a not “strengthening economy.” “Q:  You’re now concerned about inequality -- I’m wondering if there has been any changes to the labor supply that help or hinder inequality?   MR. FURMAN:  What you’d like is to increase… Read more

  WASHINGTON – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking… Read more

The IRS is staffed with hardworking men and women who do a tough job, collecting $2.4 trillion in annual revenue and administering our complex and outdated tax code. But in recent years public confidence in the IRS has been shaken. In 2011, the Committee investigated rumors that the IRS was seeking to reinterpret the gift tax and apply it to donors to right-leaning social welfare… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) pressed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen regarding Treasury developing rules to limit conservative groups’ ability to engage in public debate. During a Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight hearing with the Commissioner, Camp highlighted findings from the Committee’s… Read more

Good morning.  As we discussed last week at our hearing, the President’s health care law drastically changed the definition of full-time work.  As a result, millions of Americans are having their hours and wages cut as employers are forced to deal with the additional costs imposed by the law. The President says that he wants to work with Congress to combat income… Read more

Late last spring, Hoosiers began to witness a strange phenomenon:  One after another, local school corporations across the state announced they would limit the hours of hourly workers—their substitute teachers, teaching assistants, cafeteria workers, and so on—because of the provision in Obamacare’s employer mandate that defined full-time employment at 30 hours.  Though the… Read more

By Editorial Board The law of unintended consequences reared up again last week when the Monroe County Community School Corp.… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement after the Committee reported out legislation to repeal the ObamaCare 30-hour rule and legislation to protect volunteer firefighters and emergency responders from the burdens of the employer mandate. “ObamaCare is putting full-time work and the opportunity to earn more wages… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) wrote to Treasury Department Secretary Jacob Lew and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen requesting all documents pertaining to 501(c)(4) rulemaking. Upon sending the letter, the Chairman said “Before having all the facts in hand, Treasury rushed forward with new rules that seriously limit… Read more

Good Morning.  Less than 7 months ago, the Administration announced that they would delay the employer mandate for one year.  They acknowledged then what many had been saying since the law passed – the employer mandate is bad for business and, in turn, bad for American workers.  While the Administration offered a brief reprieve from the employer mandate, the pain ObamaCare… Read more