Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “What Really Works: Evaluating Current Efforts to Help Families Support their Children and Escape Poverty.”  The hearing will review evidence about the effectiveness of programs designed to… 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 the Obama Administration’s recent decision to delay the information reporting requirements and penalties associated with the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act until 2015.  This hearing will allow the Subcommittee to hear… Read more

A one-year delay does nothing to ease the burden of the employer mandate.  As small business owners, health care experts, and employer groups have said - the mandate increases costs, shifts workers from full-time to part-time, reduces hiring and puts in jeopardy the health care that over 150 million Americans receive from their employer.  On top of that, while some businesses… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and U.S. Representative Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) – both physicians – sent HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a letter asking serious questions about “ongoing significant weaknesses in HHS’ financial management” outlined in HHS's FY2012 financial audit. The Members noted, “many of these issues [had] been discussed every year… Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The decision to delay enforcement of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has created a host of new questions and concerns that need to be addressed, according to a letter sent today to President Obama from House Republican leaders. The letter was signed by Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Education and the Workforce… Read more

Washington, DC -  Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sent the following letter to the Administration ahead of this week's meetings of the U.S.-China Strategic… Read more

The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On the heels of last week's one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate to offer insurance to workers, the Administration is now waiving a new batch of its own ObamaCare prescriptions. These disclosures arrived inside a 606-page catch-all final rule that the Health… Read more

“Welcome to the Recovery” said then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in a New York Times op-ed published in August 2010.  In Geithner’s view back then, credit for the “recovery” rested squarely with the Obama Administration’s stimulus and related economic policies:  “The economic rescue package that President Obama put in place was essential to turning the economy… Read more

Washington, D.C. - Today Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced a one-year delay of the health law's employer mandate. “The Obama Administration's decision to give corporate America a free pass on the employer mandate while continuing to force average, everyday Americans to abide by… Read more

It’s great that U.S. employers are getting a free pass next year from the health care law, which threatens the jobs and benefits of millions of Americans.  However, it didn’t come easy or cheap.  Lobbying records show big companies and Washington associations spent over $300 million since 2011 to convince Congress and the Administration just how bad the law, including the… Read more