By Chairman Dave Camp President Obama recently gutted the historic and bipartisan welfare reforms of 1996. His decision to allow states to ignore the work requirement in the welfare program is not only wrong, but illegal. The bipartisan welfare reforms of the 1990s were the result of serious, tough work by a… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Committee approved, by voice vote, H.R. 6156, the "Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal Act of 2012." “Russia’s ascension to the WTO will happen on August 22, giving our foreign competitors more access to the Russian market.  Today’s committee vote moves us one… Read more

(Remarks as Prepared) Welcome to this morning’s hearing on public charities.   This hearing is the second in a series of hearings exploring tax-exempt issues and IRS compliance efforts.  The focus of today’s hearing is on 501(c)(3) public charities, the largest category of tax-exempt organizations.   In particular, for public charities we are focused on… Read more

Rhetoric "Discussing his economic policies at a fundraiser in Oakland, California, last night, President Obama, told supporters that 'we tried our plan – and it worked.'"(Washington Examiner, “Obama on the economy: ‘We tried our plan – and it worked’,” July 24, 2012) Reality    January 2009 June 2012 … Read more

As described in Part I of this series, when the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2012, the low-tax policies originally enacted in 2001 and 2003 – and extended, at Republicans’ urging, by a Democrat Congress and President Obama in 2010 – are again scheduled to expire.  This will result in higher taxes for every American who pays income taxes, as well as for… Read more

New estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirm what America already knows – that the Democrats’ health law is a trillion-dollar tax hike that families and employers simply cannot afford.  The recent Supreme Court ruling left in place 21 tax increases enacted as part of that law, a dozen of which – marked with an asterisk (*)… Read more

  (Remarks as Prepared) Good afternoon.  In today’s hearing, we will review how technology is being used to improve the administration of the Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, program.   As the nation’s largest Federal means-tested cash assistance program, SSI is sometimes called “the other welfare.”  Last month, SSI provided checks to more than… Read more

Today, a bipartisan group of Governors sent a letter to President Obama and House and Senate Leaders expressing their support for permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia. Tomorrow, the Ways and Means Committee will markup legislation to establish PNTR with Russia. In the letter, the Governors stated: “From our perspective as Governors, we see the potential for each of our… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement after Senate Democrats voted to raise taxes on small businesses. “Today’s Senate vote was a vote to raise taxes on nearly one million small business owners that, according to an Ernst & Young study, would destroy over 700,000 American jobs.  Rather than raising taxes to… Read more

The Subcommittee will come to order. We are meeting today to hear from physician organizations who are working to improve the quality of care delivered to patients.  These initiatives have been shown to be successful and may hold promise as we seek to reform and update the Medicare physician payment formula.   For the past 18 months we’ve been seeking both formal and informal… Read more