Hearing on Internal Revenue Service Targeting Conservative Groups ________________________________________ HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES … Read more

Good afternoon.  I want to welcome everyone to our hearing on the U.S.-EU trade and investment partnership negotiations.  Today’s hearing focuses on the enormous potential that exists in a U.S.-EU trade and investment agreement.  The U.S.-EU economic relationship is the largest and most integrated in the world, comprising 50 percent of global GDP and supporting millions of… Read more

I rise today in support of H.R. 45, legislation to repeal ObamaCare. In March 2010, then-Speaker Pelosi famously said, with respect to the President’s health care law, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”  Well, Washington Democrats passed that bill, and virtually every week since has been an expensive, eye-opening experience. Over the past three… Read more

U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, today announced the third in a series of hearings on the President’s and other bipartisan entitlement reform proposals.  This hearing will focus on proposed adjustments to Social Security benefits, as included in the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, the… Read more

Washington, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Ranking Members Lamar Alexander (R-TN) of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) of the Senate Finance Committee, with House Chairmen Fred Upton (R-MI) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Jack Kingston (R-GA) of the House… Read more

Hearing on U.S.-EU Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations ________________________________________ HEARING BEFORE THE … Read more

The hearing will come to order.  Good morning and thank you for joining us for our hearing on the Ways & Means Small Business Tax Reform Discussion Draft. In March 2011, the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing on small businesses and tax reform.  We learned that the temporary, complex nature of the tax code was forcing small business owners to invest… Read more

After $1 trillion in new taxes and more than $2 trillion in new spending, three years later the Democrats’ law has failed to deliver on the promise of affordable health care for Americans.  Instead, American families and businesses are facing the tough and costly realities of ObamaCare: higher health insurance premiums, the loss of the health plan you have and like, lower… Read more

March-April 2010 According to TIGTA, the IRS’s Determinations Unit “began searching for other requests for exemption involving the Tea Party, Patriots, 9/12 and IRC § 501(c)(4) applications involving political sounding names, e.g., “We the People” or “Take Back the Country.” June 3, 2011 Chairman Camp sends letter to Commissioner Shulman inquiring about IRS targeting of taxpayers who… Read more

Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., MD (R-LA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking answers to several questions surrounding the ObamaCare “navigators” program.  HHS recently started the application process to… Read more