COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

News List

  • Camp Opening Statement: Hearing on Tax Reform and Tax Provisions Affecting State and Local Governments

    March 19, 2013 - Good morning and thank you for joining us today. As part of the Committee’s effort to strengthen the economy, create more jobs and increase wages for American families by making the tax code simpler and fairer, today’s hearing allows stakeholders and members of the public the opportunity to share t... More

  • Camp Again Calls for President To Work With Congress On Areas of Agreement

    March 19, 2013 - Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) delivered a statement on the House floor in support of the GOP’s balanced budget. "I rise in support of a federal budget that balances so we can strengthen our economy, create more jobs and allow American workers to start seeing an in... More

  • Praise for Small Business Tax Reform Draft

    March 13, 2013 - In a continued push to make the tax code simpler and fairer to strengthen the economy, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) has released a tax reform discussion draft aimed at helping small businesses expand, hire new workers and increase pay and benefits. In response, groups represent... More

  • *UPDATE: NEW TIME* Chairman Tiberi Announces Hearing on Ways and Means Financial Products Tax Reform Discussion Draft

    March 13, 2013 - *UPDATE: NEW TIME* All other details remain unchanged Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-OH), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the financial products tax reform discussion draft released on January 24, 2013, by the Committee... More

  • Strengthening the Economy and Increasing Wages by Making the Tax Code Simpler and Fairer for America’s Small Businesses

    March 12, 2013 - Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released a discussion draft aimed at creating a simpler and fairer tax code for small businesses. The goal of Camp’s latest draft is to spur greater job creation and higher wages for American workers by reducing the burden t... More

  • Small Business Calls for Tax Reform

    March 7, 2013 - A new survey released today by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) sums up what small businesses want from comprehensive tax reform – a code that closes loopholes in order to make it less complex and less costly to comply with. Underscoring just how broken the tax code is, 85 perc... More

  • ObamaCare: Trillion Dollar Tax Hike that Hurts Small Businesses

    March 4, 2013 - Tomorrow, the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight will examine the tax provisions contained in ObamaCare. Estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirm that the Democrats’ health law is a trillion-dollar tax hike that families and employer... More

  • The GOP Takes Back Tax Reform

    March 1, 2013 - In Virginia Tuesday, President Obama stood before roaring crowds and clicking cameras to act out his latest sequester melodrama. About the time he finished, a lone Michigan congressman sat down in a quieter Capitol Hill conference room to unveil the real news of the week. The politico: Dave Camp, ch... More

  • Ways and Means Committee Announces New Way to Contact Tax Reform Working Groups

    March 1, 2013 - Washington, DC - Today, the Ways and Means Committee announced a new email address, tax.reform@mail.house.gov as another way for stakeholders, advocacy groups and the public to share information, facts and data relevant to the Committee's review of current federal income tax law within the Committe... More

  • Tax working groups begin talks with hope

    February 27, 2013 - The tax reform working groups commissioned by House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp won’t produce landmark legislation, but they might create something equally important to an eventual Tax Code rewrite: trust. That’s the theory, at least. Lawmakers have been mulling a comprehensive overhaul of th... More