Washington, DC - Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its latest report on the Obama Administration’s proposal to waive work requirements for welfare recipients, which was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on July 12, 2012.  While a prior GAO report showed the Administration didn’t follow the law when they unilaterally… Read more

I rise today in support of H.R. 6410, a bill to provide a simple way for individuals to voluntarily donate funds to pay down the national debt. Under current law, you can contribute to debt reduction.  But like all things with the IRS, it isn’t easy.  If you dig deep into the 189 pages of instructions that accompany the 1040, you will find on page 88 the following: “Do not… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) commented on today’s analysis released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimating that, in 2016, 70 percent of the 5.9 million American taxpayers who will be forced to pay the Democrats’ new tax for not buying government-approved health insurance will have incomes that are low enough to qualify for… Read more

On July 12 of this year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an “information memorandum” saying they would accept and approve applications from States seeking to waive the work requirement that has been central to the success of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF cash welfare program.   The Administration issued its memorandum despite the fact… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee and U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, called on New York Attorney General (AG) Eric Schneiderman to halt all exploratory efforts involving the activities of several businesses and non-profit 501(c)(4) organizations.  In a letter, the… Read more

Washington power grabs are nothing new for the Obama administration – from bypassing the Senate to make unconstitutional recess appointments, to efforts by the National Labor Relations Board to force unionization on the American workforce, to attempts to impose costly cap and trade through the Environmental Protection Agency.  But the Obama White House has really… Read more

Good morning and welcome to the fifth and last hearing in our series on securing the future of the Social Security Disability Insurance program.    Over the course of the series we’ve heard about the program’s striking and continuing growth: at a time when workers paying into the system have increased nearly 70 percent between 1970 and today, the number of people… Read more

Good morning. We are meeting today to consider H.J.Res. 118, a resolution to block the Obama Administration from waiving work requirements in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare program. Americans strongly believe that those who are able should work in exchange for receiving federal benefits.  A recent survey revealed that 83 percent support a work… Read more

Myth: HHS has not “gutted” welfare reform. Fact: Work requirements were at the core of welfare reform, and they have been the centerpiece of the law for 16 years. HHS now claims that work requirements are no longer mandatory, and that States can apply to HHS to opt out of the requirements. By claiming these requirements can be waived, HHS is claiming they can rewrite the… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Committee approved, by a vote of 18 to 14, H.J.Res. 118, “Providing for congressional disapproval of the Administration’s July 12, 2012 waiver of welfare work requirements.” “Today’s vote in the Ways and Means Committee moves us one step closer to stopping the Obama… Read more