COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

News List

  • Back to the Future: March Jobs Report Recalls Disco-Era Economy of Carter Administration

    April 8, 2013 - 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 M... More

  • Camp Statement on March Jobs Report

    April 5, 2013 - 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... 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

  • Camp, Reichert Statements on House Passage of the Preserving the Welfare Work Requirement and TANF Extension Act of 2013

    March 13, 2013 - Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) made the following statements after the House passed H.R. 890, the Preserving the Welfare Work Requirement and TANF Extension Act of 2013. The legislation p... More

  • Welfare Reform Is Back

    March 12, 2013 - Last summer, the Obama Administration gutted the successful 1996 welfare reform law by offering to waive its work requirements. Now the debate is back, as several Members of Congress are trying to restore the reforms that helped so many out of poverty. The work requirements were the heart and soul ... More

  • Making Welfare Work—Again

    March 11, 2013 - In the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign, the Obama administration announced it would ease up on the work requirements that made the 1996 reform of the nation's welfare law such a success. At the time, congressional Republicans denounced the move as "gutting" the law and vowed they would not l... More

  • Camp Statement on February Jobs Report

    March 8, 2013 - Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the February jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 236,000 jobs were created, and the unemployment rate for February decreased to 7.7 percent. “Despite this month’... More

  • News Flash: ObamaCare - Not a Jobs Program

    March 8, 2013 - Then: "It's about jobs. In its life, it [ObamaCare] will create 4 million jobs -- 400,000 jobs almost immediately." (Then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Administration’s “Health Summit” on February 25, 2010) Now : “I’ve got a news flash for you. The Affordable Care Act is not a jobs program.” (Jared Be... More

  • Camp Opening Statement: Markup of H.R. 890, the "Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013"

    March 6, 2013 - Good morning. We are meeting today to consider H.R. 890, legislation that would prohibit the Obama Administration from waiving work requirements in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare program. Last July, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued “guidance” that... More

  • Ways and Means Committee Acts to Protect Welfare Work Requirements

    March 6, 2013 - Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Committee approved, by a vote of 21 to 14, H.R. 890, the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013. “Ways and Means Committee passage of the Preserving Work Requirements for... More