By Dave Camp and Max Baucus
Every week Congress has been in session for the past two years, one of us has made the short walk across the Capitol to the other's office. We crowd into a room with our policy experts to chart a path to our mutual goal—comprehensive tax reform.
While we are from different political parties, we agree that America's tax code is broken. That is…
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The official unemployment rate fell in March because 496,000 people gave up looking for work and dropped out of the labor force, not because significant numbers of Americans found jobs. This was the largest one-month drop in the labor force since December 2009 and the largest drop in the month of March since March 1960 (-550,000). In fact, the survey that is used to…
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Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the March jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 88,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for March decreased to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent in February.
"Too many Americans remain out of work, and even more Americans…
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A Rasmussen poll released this week found that a paltry 9 percent of those surveyed believe the United States has the best tax system in the world. To put this in perspective, a separate poll found that 6 times as many (54 percent) Icelanders believe that elves may exist.
Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with our broken tax code. Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI)…
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced that the Committee on Ways and Means will hold a hearing on President Obama’s budget proposals for the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal year 2014. The hearing will take place on Friday, April 12, 2013 in 1100 Longworth House Office Building, beginning at 9:00 A.M.
In view of the…
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced that the Committee on Ways and Means will hold a hearing on President Obama's budget proposals for fiscal year 2014. The hearing will take place on Thursday, April 11, 2013, in 1100 Longworth House Office Building, beginning at 10:00 A.M.
In view of the limited time available to hear the witness,…
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Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee will convene a series of hearings on entitlement reforms to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security that have been identified by the President – either in his budget or in other recommendations to Congress – as well as bipartisan ideas for entitlement reform from…
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WASHINGTON, DC – Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee today outlined additional details of a proposal to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program. On February 7, the committees outlined a framework to reform the…
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By Damian Paletta
WASHINGTON—The White House is strongly considering including limits on entitlement benefits in its fiscal 2014 budget—a proposal it first offered Republicans in December. The move would be aimed in part at keeping alive bipartisan talks on a major budget deal.
Such a proposal could include steps that make many Democrats queasy, such as…
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