Every dollar lost to Medicare fraud is a dollar stolen from America’s elderly.  And every dollar lost to improper payments – intentional or not – robs from the solvency of this important program.   Today’s hearing will examine the issue of Medicare fraud.  This is a bipartisan concern shared by our seniors, the Medicare program and lawmakers on this… Read more

Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., M.D., (R-LA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the 2014 tax return filing season. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in Room 1100 of the Longworth house Office Building, beginning at… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement after the Committee approved bipartisan legislation to prevent and address sex trafficking of youth in foster care, and six permanent extensions of tax policies for America’s job creators. “Short-term tax policy is bad for business and bad for economic growth and jobs.  The United… Read more

The tax extenders are a group of approximately 50 tax-reducing policies that expire regularly. Congress has traditionally extended them just as… Read more

By Sarah E. Needleman and Angus Loten Many small businesses won a reprieve from having to provide health insurance under the Affordable Care Act… Read more

House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today announced that the Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing on Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse, with a focus on the policies that address these problems.  This hearing will allow the Subcommittee to hear directly from the U.S. Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement regarding Tax Day. “There is no better example of Washington’s inefficiency and ineffectiveness than our tax code.  Today, as Americans across the country finish filing their taxes, they come face to face with a tax code that is too complicated, takes too much time to comply… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) wrote to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Acting Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Carolyn Colvin regarding media reports that adults who may have once received Social Security benefits as children were having… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee, acting under its authority granted in Sec. 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, voted out a criminal referral letter to Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Eric Holder regarding actions taken by IRS employee Lois Lerner.  Chairman Camp, in sending the letter on behalf… Read more

Good afternoon.  I want to welcome everyone to today’s hearing on the trade implications of U.S. energy policy and the export of liquefied natural gas.  Today’s hearing focuses on the enormous potential of the U.S. energy revolution of the past decade.  I’d like to make four points before we hear from our witnesses. First, the exploration of unconventional energy… Read more