Chairman Camp Announces Hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Proposal with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen SebeliusHouse 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 2012. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, February 16, 2011, in 1100 Longworth House Office Building, beginning at 10:00 A.M. In view of the limited time available to hear the witness, oral testimony at this hearing will be from the invited witness only. The sole witness will be the Honorable Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). However, any individual or organization not scheduled for an oral appearance may submit a written statement for consideration by the Committee and for inclusion in the printed record of the hearing. BACKGROUND: On February 14, 2011, the President is expected to submit his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal to Congress. The proposed budget will detail his tax, spending and policy proposals for the coming year, including his proposed budget for the Department of Health and Human Services and the programs it operates and oversees. Many of the Department's programs such as Medicare, efforts to assist those who lack health insurance, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families are within the Committee's jurisdiction. In announcing this hearing, Chairman Camp said, “This hearing will give us an opportunity to examine the Democrats’ new health care law, its implementation, and the resulting cost increases and market disruptions already being felt across the country. Equally important, we will be able to address the looming expiration of the historic 1996 welfare reform law and what plans the Administration has to build on its successes in breaking the cycle of dependency and moving more Americans off of welfare and into private sector employment.”
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