Tomorrow, the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight will examine the tax provisions contained in ObamaCare.  Estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirm that the Democrats’ health law is a trillion-dollar tax hike that families and employers simply cannot afford.  Additionally, the Administration’s own documents state… Read more

In Virginia Tuesday, President Obama stood before roaring crowds and clicking cameras to act out his latest sequester melodrama. About the time he finished, a lone Michigan congressman sat down in a quieter Capitol Hill conference room to unveil the real news of the week. The politico: Dave Camp, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. His subject: tax reform. The news—which by… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) made the following comments in response to the release of the President’s 2013 Trade Policy Agenda.   Chairman Camp: “I welcome the Administration’s focus on ensuring that our trading partners play by the rules and that we use ongoing and new negotiations to… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, the Ways and Means Committee announced a new email address, tax.reform@mail.house.gov as another way for stakeholders, advocacy groups and the public to share information, facts and data relevant to the Committee's review of current federal income tax law within the Committee’s 11 Tax Reform Working Groups.   The working groups, announced earlier this… Read more

Today’s hearing is on the Obama Administration’s July 2012 proposal to allow States to waive work and activity requirements for welfare recipients, often simply called welfare’s “work requirements.” Those work requirements originated in the 1996 welfare reform law, which passed on a bipartisan basis after literally years of debate.  President Clinton campaigned in 1992 on a pledge… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL) introduced the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013, prohibiting the Obama Administration from waiving the work requirements that were a… Read more

Washington, DC – In a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) outlined their concerns with how cuts of more than $300 billion to the Medicare… Read more

The tax reform working groups commissioned by House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp won’t produce landmark legislation, but they might create something equally important to an eventual Tax Code rewrite: trust. That’s the theory, at least. Lawmakers have been mulling a comprehensive overhaul of the Tax Code for years. But with Democrats accusing the GOP of sacrificing the… Read more

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Welcome to today’s hearing. I can’t think of a more important, or more bipartisan, topic than promoting adoption. In fact, that’s why we are having this hearing today. This is an area where both parties have worked together to improve outcomes for children, which is what I would like to do whenever possible as Chairman. I know Mr. Doggett agrees with that goal, and I look forward to… Read more