Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., MD (R-LA) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  The letter calls on Sebelius to provide information related to recent whistleblower allegations that political appointees within HHS have been using instant messaging technology to… Read more

Washington, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., MD (R-LA) today announced a joint letter sent to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner requesting unredacted versions of documents withheld from the Committees.  The… Read more

Washington, DC - Congressman Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Acting Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, released a report prepared at his request by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).  The report, titled “Supplemental Security Income: SSA Has Taken Steps to Prevent and Detect Overpayments but Additional Actions Could be… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sent a letter to heads of the Business Roundtable and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) responding to the President  Obama’s call for a corporate tax reform only approach to tax reform as a means of averting the fiscal… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Acting Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources Erik Paulsen (R-MN) released the following statement thanking actor Tamara Tunie, spokesperson for the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths, for her support of the bipartisan proposal to reduce child deaths due to abuse and… Read more

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As the President continues to call for well over $1 trillion in new taxes, including higher tax rates for small businesses, Main Street job creators have been speaking out about what those new taxes will mean for them and the men and women they work with each day.  The news is not good.  Three newly released surveys confirm the threat of higher tax rates is already hurting… Read more

Last week, a New York Times editorial noted that, despite November’s job gains, the employment situation in the U.S. is still bleak: “Over all, the job market is still very weak, with an estimated 3.9 million people having either dropped out of or never entered the work force after leaving school, on top of 12 million people who are officially unemployed and 8.2 million who are… Read more

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Washington, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement today in response to a letter to Congress from the Business Roundtable (BRT), an association of some of America’s largest multinational corporations, stating that higher tax rates on individual taxpayers should be considered to avert the fiscal cliff. "Big business may… Read more