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May 9, 2013
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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 ...
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May 9, 2013
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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...
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May 7, 2013
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WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today released a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) internal memo that confirms that as early as 2009, the Obama Administration was actively exploring ways to circum...
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May 3, 2013
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Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the April jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 165,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for April decreased to 7.5 percent from 7.6 percent in March. ...
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May 2, 2013
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Yesterday, key Republican Members of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor expressing their continued support for unemployment insurance (UI) reforms signed into law in 2012 that authorize States to screen certain UI applicants for drug use. In anticipation of t...
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May 2, 2013
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Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Letting Kids Be Kids: Balancing Safety with Opportunity for Foster Youth.” The hearing will review recent State ef...
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April 29, 2013
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The Obama Administration once promised that, “A well designed recovery plan will not only create numerous jobs, but also many jobs paying good wages and providing full-time employment.” (Administration’s January 10, 2009 Romer-Bernstein Report on its economic stimulus plan, officially titled “The J...
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April 16, 2013
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Welcome to today’s hearing on the progress of reforms enacted last year designed to help more unemployed individuals, especially the long-term unemployed, get back to work. Reforms enacted in 2012 were aimed at connecting those in need with the resources necessary to succeed. Today, we will take a l...
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April 11, 2013
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In 2009, Administration economists predicted that as a result of the Democrats’ trillion-dollar stimulus plan, the unemployment rate would never rise above 8 percent and would decline to 5 percent by mid-2013. The unemployment rate then soared above 8 percent for over three years, and has only rece...
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April 9, 2013
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Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing reviewing the implementation of reforms to the unemployment insurance system contained in Public Law 112-96, The Middle Cla...
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COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS