Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee will hold a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. After multiple inquiries from the Ways and Means Committee, the IRS repeatedly denied that they were targeting conservative grassroots organizations.… Read more

  The Obama administration reeks from a disturbing air of dishonesty. It's not that they have not been truthful about policy matters, like how much the president's health care reform is really going to cost or whether Obama told the truth that he would not propose raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year while campaigning in 2008. They haven't, but the… Read more

 By Susan Davis WASHINGTON — The top two tax writers on Capitol Hill want to overhaul the federal tax code for the first time since 1986 and they are soliciting help from the public to help get it done. Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, a Democrat, and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, a Republican, are launching a website Thursday -- taxreform.gov -- and a… Read more

I rise today in support of H.R. 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act. This legislation credibly and permanently removes the threat of default on a U.S. debt payment and ensures that Social Security benefit payments are paid in full and on time. The bill is really quite simple: it requires the Treasury Department to issue debt not subject to the statutory limit to make… Read more

Entering foster care is a life-changing experience for children. Foster children are faced with a dizzying array of changes that are anything but normal. They are separated from their parents. They are often sent to live with a family they have never met. They may start attending a new school, have to make new friends, and make new efforts to participate in sports and other activities… Read more

Washington, DC – House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) today teamed up to launch TaxReform.gov, a new website dedicated to obtaining input from the American public on tax reform. “The tax code is littered with special interest provisions that Washington has put in over the last 27 years.  It is time to go… Read more

Washington, DC – Yesterday, Committee on Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), along with other Members of the Human Resources Subcommittee, introduced H.R. 1896, the International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation mirrors legislation that unanimously… Read more

House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on negotiations of a U.S.-EU trade and investment partnership agreement.  The hearing will focus on the opportunities and challenges presented by the President’s notification to Congress that he intends to negotiate such an agreement.  The hearing… Read more

Hearing on Letting Kids Be Kids: Balancing Safety with Opportunity for Foster Youth _____________________________________ HEARING … Read more

Welcome to today’s hearing on the IRS’s final report on its Colleges and Universities Compliance Project. Over the last two decades, tax-exempt organizations have grown increasingly complex in their organizational structures and operations. This has made it more difficult for the IRS to conduct oversight of the sector.  Lending to this complexity is the prevalence of profit… Read more