Washington, DC – Yesterday, Committee on Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), along with other Members of the Human Resources Subcommittee, introduced H.R. 1896, the International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation mirrors legislation that unanimously… Read more

Welcome to today’s hearing on the IRS’s final report on its Colleges and Universities Compliance Project. Over the last two decades, tax-exempt organizations have grown increasingly complex in their organizational structures and operations. This has made it more difficult for the IRS to conduct oversight of the sector.  Lending to this complexity is the prevalence of profit… Read more

I want to welcome everyone to today’s hearing on addressing the broken Sustainable Growth Rate formula by which the federal government reimburses our local doctors for treating Medicare patients.  While this is our third hearing, SGR has also been a focal point at the first two.   The first hearing was on redesigning the Medicare benefit package to make it more rational and… Read more

Washington, DC – The House Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees today released an updated version of the ObamaCare Burden Tracker (#ObamaCareBurden), which reveals the burden on employers and families has increased to almost 190 million hours.  The Burden Tracker, first released in February, is a real-time, online resource to help the public… Read more

  WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today released a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) internal memo that confirms that as early as 2009, the Obama Administration was actively exploring ways to circumvent welfare work requirements and other key provisions that were the… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement upon release of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) report on the Ways and Means Committee Tax Reform Working Groups.  The report includes a summary of present law and suggestions for reform submitted to the 11 Tax Reform… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the April jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor.  A net total of 165,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for April decreased to 7.5 percent from 7.6 percent in March.   "The fact that an unemployment rate of 7.5 percent is better… 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 his intention to nominate Mike Froman as U.S. Trade Representative. Chairman Camp : “I welcome the President’s nomination of Mike Froman to lead USTR.  I look forward to continuing to… Read more

  Yesterday, key Republican Members of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor expressing their continued support for unemployment insurance (UI) reforms signed into law in 2012 that authorize States to screen certain UI applicants for drug use.  In anticipation of the Department’s upcoming notice of proposed rulemaking on this… Read more

Only an out-of-touch Washington bureaucracy would hold a press conference touting “simplification” for taking one form and changing it to three forms with multiple appendices.  The reality remains that Americans will still face a long, confusing process just to determine if they are eligible for ObamaCare’s subsidies.  While Washington is holding press conferences, the law… Read more