By Kimberley A. Strassel A bipartisan backlash is growing against another section of President Obama's health-care law. The president can blame this latest embarrassment on none other than Secretary of State John Kerry. Everyone remember the origins of the so-called Affordable Care Act? The Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, Gator-Aid, and other… Read more

We are meeting today to hear from the two public members of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds on their 2013 report’s analysis regarding the current dire status of the Medicare program.   It’s important to understand the financial health and viability of the Medicare program if we are to ensure that the… Read more

Washington, DC – Committee on Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) issued the following statements upon this week's House passage of H.R. 1896, the “International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act of 2013.”  The legislation which passed June 18 by a vote of 394-27, makes no-cost… Read more

Congressman Dave Camp, (R-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the agency’s 30-day review of the practice of discriminating against applicants for tax-exempt status based on their personal beliefs.  The hearing will take place on Thursday, June 27, 2013, in Room… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Ways and Means Committee Members wrote to President Obama urging the Administration to address several pressing trade and investment issues at the upcoming U.S.- India Strategic Dialogue (SD).  In the letter, the Members write, “[W]e have seen a disturbing trend in which India is turning… Read more

Good morning and welcome to our hearing on encouraging work in the Social Security disability insurance program.   The disability insurance program provides essential income security to people with disabilities and their families.  Over the past 40 years, changes in demographics, Federal policy, and the availability of jobs have driven a 300 percent increase in the number… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), and Senate Finance Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) joined together today to call for ideas on how to improve care for Medicare patients. In a letter to key stakeholders, the Chairmen and Ranking Members ask for ideas on how to… Read more

Welcome to today’s hearing. Today is the first hearing in a series on what government does to help low-income families get ahead, whether that is effective, and how that can be made to work better. Today we will start with a review of our current system and how much we spend, but more importantly whether that spending is effective in encouraging work and higher earnings by… Read more

“A well designed recovery plan will not only create numerous jobs, but also many jobs paying good wages and providing full-time employment.”   - Obama Administration’s “Romer Bernstein Report” on their trillion-dollar economic stimulus plan (officially titled “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan”), January 2009.   Now   "Real average hourly… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) issued the following statements after the President announced the launch of negotiations for a comprehensive trade and investment agreement with the European Union. Chairman Camp: "I am a strong supporter of a comprehensive and ambitious trade and investment agreement… Read more