AARP is being held up again today as a credible source committed to protecting seniors – this time in a new round of attacks on bipartisan policies that would extend the solvency of the Medicare program.  This is the same AARP that hailed the law as benefitting seniors, despite a recent estimate by the Congressional Budget Office that the law cuts Medicare by more than $700… Read more

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) called on Obama Administration officials to detail its involvement in the termination of pensions for certain employees of the now-bankrupt Delphi.  Recent news reports indicate that the Obama Administration played an active role in picking winners and losers among Delphi’s retirees.   Camp requested that… Read more

Washington, DC - Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) sent a letter to the Commissioner of Social Security, transmitting the legal opinion issued this week by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the agency’s decision to end two programs designed to help disability beneficiaries return to work; the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) and the… Read more

  By Stephen Moore It is now a daily routine: President Obama issues another class-warfare call to arms, demanding that the rich pay higher tax rates starting next year. Along the way he also takes derisive shots at Republicans in Congress, as Mr. Obama insists that they triple income- and investment-tax rates for the… Read more

During the Obama Administration (that is, between January 2009 and July 2012), the number of people not in the labor force has grown by 7.8 million, according to the Department of Labor’s household survey.  Meanwhile, during that same time, employment has grown by only 33,000 according to the same… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA), and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA), called on Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to produce a detailed accounting of how funds at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services… Read more

  As he escalates his class war re-election campaign, President Obama has taken to calling Mitt Romney's economic plan "Robin Hood in reverse" or "Romney Hood." The charge is that even though Mr. Romney is proposing to cut tax rates for everybody across the board, Mr. Romney will finance this by imposing a… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) sent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Doug Shulman a letter demanding answers on a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) revealing the IRS may be blatantly ignoring fraudulent tax returns and applications for the Individual Taxpayer… Read more

Where are the jobs the Administration promised its stimulus would deliver? 1. In January 2009, the Obama Administration forecast there would be 137.6 million jobs at the end of 2010 under their stimulus plan.  Instead, there were just 130.3 million jobs in December 2010.  Now, even 19 months later in July 2012, there are just 133.2 million jobs in… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the July jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor.  A net total of 163,000 jobs were created, and the unemployment rate for July increased to 8.3 percent.  This marks the 42nd consecutive month that the U.S. unemployment rate has been above 8 percent, a… Read more