Washington, DC  -  Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) released an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) response to his April 18, 2013 letter asking the IRS to document employees who leave their official duties to attend union training on the taxpayer’s dime. In the response, the IRS stated that: In… Read more

Philadelphia – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) met today with Philadelphia area small business owners to hear the challenges they face in dealing with America’s broken tax code. “Washington is a bit of a bubble. We believe it’s important to get out and meet with people one-on-one to hear… Read more

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Ways and Means Committee released bipartisan proposals to strengthen and protect Social Security.  This follows several hearings in the Social Security Subcommittee on bipartisan proposals to secure the future of the program.  The draft legislative text can be found at www.waysandmeans.house.gov/entitlementreform. The latest… Read more

In a June 2013 response to the Ways and Means Committee, the IRS identified 65 million documents potentially responsive to the IRS-Tea Party investigation. After Chairman Camp and Ranking Member Levin sent a letter to IRS pressing the agency to expedite their document production, the IRS revised their original estimate down to 460,000 responsive documents.  This revised estimate… Read more

Agency stonewalling could permanently harm Americans' faith in government. In all the day-to-day of the IRS scandals I don't think it's been fully noticed that the overall reputation of the agency has suffered a collapse, the kind from which it can take a generation to recover fully. In the long term this will prove damaging to the national morale—what happens to a great nation when… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman announced that the IRS has produced less than one percent of the total documents requested in the Congressional inquiry into the IRS targeting of conservative groups.   "The IRS demands that hardworking Americans comply with its rules and regulations subject to strict deadlines, but it appears that same… Read more

House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on the current status of the Obama Administration’s efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  The Committee will hear testimony from Daniel Werfel, Principal Deputy Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement at the Internal… Read more

Washington, D.C. - As a former sheriff and now Chairman of the Human Resources Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means with jurisdiction over the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program, today Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA) introduced H.R. 2826, the Permanently Ending Receipt by Prisoners Act, also known as the PERP Act.   In introducing this legislation,… Read more

Then “US President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to work tirelessly to get unemployed Americans back to work now that new statistics have shown a slight improvement on the job creation front. ‘My commitment to you, the American people, is that I will focus every single day on how we can get people back to work, and how we can build an economy that continues to make real the promise… Read more

  Lawmakers investigating the political targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service are demanding to know exactly who asked IRS employees like Lois Lerner to leave their positions after the scandal broke, and why. Republicans Dave Camp, the Ways and Means Committee chairman, and Darrell Issa, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, sent… Read more