WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and U.S. Representative Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) – both physicians – sent HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a letter asking serious questions about “ongoing significant weaknesses in HHS’ financial management” outlined in HHS's FY2012 financial audit. The Members noted, “many of these issues [had] been discussed every year… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The decision to delay enforcement of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has created a host of new questions and concerns that need to be addressed, according to a letter sent today to President Obama from House Republican leaders. The letter was signed by Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Education and the Workforce… Read more

Washington, DC -  Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sent the following letter to the Administration ahead of this week's meetings of the U.S.-China Strategic… Read more

The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On the heels of last week's one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate to offer insurance to workers, the Administration is now waiving a new batch of its own ObamaCare prescriptions. These disclosures arrived inside a 606-page catch-all final rule that the Health… Read more

“Welcome to the Recovery” said then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in a New York Times op-ed published in August 2010.  In Geithner’s view back then, credit for the “recovery” rested squarely with the Obama Administration’s stimulus and related economic policies:  “The economic rescue package that President Obama put in place was essential to turning the economy… Read more

Washington, D.C. - Today Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced a one-year delay of the health law's employer mandate. “The Obama Administration's decision to give corporate America a free pass on the employer mandate while continuing to force average, everyday Americans to abide by… Read more

It’s great that U.S. employers are getting a free pass next year from the health care law, which threatens the jobs and benefits of millions of Americans.  However, it didn’t come easy or cheap.  Lobbying records show big companies and Washington associations spent over $300 million since 2011 to convince Congress and the Administration just how bad the law, including the… Read more

The Obama Administration has made promise after promise that ObamaCare will be ready on October 1.  However, with last night’s blog posting by the Treasury Department announcing the delay of the employer mandate until 2015, the Administration has admitted once again that a key feature of their law is either unaffordable, unworkable – or both. What a difference a few weeks… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) announced visits to two separate businesses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area.  The visits are the first in a series of trips across the nation so the Chairmen of the two tax-writing committees can hear directly from… Read more

It’s been one year since the Supreme Court ruled ObamaCare is the law of the land.  Now, Americans are faced with the untenable choice of either paying more in new taxes or more for their insurance premiums.  Time has revealed the facts about ObamaCare and the results aren’t good – increased costs, losing the health insurance you have and like, new taxes for families and… Read more