COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Opening Statements

Johnson Opening Statement: Hearing on the President’s and Other Bipartisan Entitlement Reform Proposals

May 23, 2013-- Good morning and welcome to the third hearing in the Committee’s series on the President’s and other bipartisan entitlement reform proposals. Workers have worked hard, played by the rules, and earned the right to a secure retirement that no one can take away. Yet unless Congress acts to protect and preserve Social Security, beginning in 2033, Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits, a... more

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A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS’s Lois Lerner

May 20, 2013-- In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury Inspector General’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the exempt organizations division. The clumsy way the IRS disclosed t... more

Press Release

Brady Introduces Legislation to Repeal ObamaCare Sweetheart Deal

May 20, 2013-- Washington, DC – Today, Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), along with Reps. Pat Tiberi (R-OH), Peter Roskam (R-IL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Aaron Schock (R-IL), Tom Reed (R-NY), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Morgan Griffith (R-VA) introduced the Medicare Hospital Wage Index Equity Act of 2013. The legislation repeals the "Bay State Boondoggle," ... more

Opening Statements

Camp Opening Statement: Hearing on IRS Targeting Conservative Groups

May 17, 2013-- On May 10, 2013, Lois Lerner, Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) division that oversees tax-exempt groups, finally acknowledged that the agency had been targeting conservative-leaning political organizations. Four days later, the Treasury Inspector General for Taxpayer Administration (TIGTA) confirmed that, “the IRS used inappropriate criteria to identify orga... more

Opening Statements

Nunes Opening Statement: Hearing on U.S.-EU Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations

May 16, 2013-- 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 U.S. jobs. Although it’s a ... more

Floor Statements

H.R. 45, Repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Health Care-Related Provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

May 16, 2013-- 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 years, it has become cl... more

Press Release

Senate, House Republicans Call on GAO to Investigate Sec. Sebelius’s Solicitation of Funds for Private Non-Profit

May 16, 2013-- 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 Appropriations Committee Subcommitt... more