Washington, DC - Last Friday, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), along with Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Congressmen Sam Johnson (R-TX), Devin Nunes (R-CA), Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) and Aaron Schock (R-IL), introduced legislation to provide that the only health plans the Federal Government may make available to the President, Vice President, Members of… Read more

Nearly all of the remaining provisions of the new health care law go into effect next January, including one that requires businesses with 50 or more full-time employees to pay for their health care or pay a penalty. Some businesses may already be making personnel changes to save money when that provision of the Affordable Care Act kicks in. One option on the table: shifting full-time… Read more

Claim Americans "are experiencing the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, even if they don't know it." President Obama, 4/30/13 Reality The American people are well aware of the “benefits” of ObamaCare – less work, lower wages and fewer benefits. Facts 71 percent of small businesses cite the health care law as a major obstacle to job creation. The… Read more

The Obama Administration once promised that, “A well designed recovery plan will not only create numerous jobs, but also many jobs paying good wages and providing full-time employment.” (Administration’s January 10, 2009 Romer-Bernstein Report on its economic stimulus plan, officially titled “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan”)   The actual… Read more

Good morning and welcome. Every six years a new Commissioner is nominated and confirmed to lead the Social Security Administration.  Congress deliberately created a term that might straddle political changes in the executive branch to underscore the importance of strong and independent leadership for this agency that touches the lives of every American citizen.… Read more

Good morning and thank you for joining us today as we continue our dialogue with individuals, families and job creators of all sizes about the critical steps Congress can take through tax reform to get our economy back on solid footing. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it is important for Congress to fix our broken tax code.  As anyone in this room who just completed… Read more

Welcome to the Subcommittee on Oversight’s annual hearing on the Internal Revenue Service’s operations and budget.   Just last week, million of taxpayers across America scrambled to meet their tax filing obligations by April 15.  That was no easy feat.  Every year, taxpayers face a tax code of growing complexity.   Indeed, there have been nearly 5,000 changes… Read more

Good morning.  We are meeting today to consider H.R. 807, the “Full Faith and Credit Act,” introduced by Congressman McClintock earlier this year.  I will be offering an amendment in the nature of a substitute to ensure that the United States never defaults on a debt payment. In February of this year, the President signed into law H.R. 325, the “No Budget, No Pay Act,”… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement upon the announcement that Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) will retire at the end of his term in 2014. “Max is a true legislator and friend for whom I have great respect, and I look forward to continuing our work to fix the tax code and protect and preserve our entitlement programs… Read more

As our economy continues to struggle, ObamaCare is resulting in an alarming trend of both fewer jobs and shifting workers from full-time to part-time.  That number is about to climb even higher as the employer mandate in the Democrats’ health care law takes effect.  Beginning in 2014, any employer with more than 50 full-time equivalent employees will be mandated to either… Read more