COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

News List

  • The Obamaconomy: No Room for New Workers (Except Back Home with Mom and Dad)

    February 11, 2013 - Tomorrow, the President will describe the state of the union, including the state of the economy for workers and families. Americans are likely to hear more of the same from recent years – how Administration policies (1) laid a new foundation for future growth, (2) saved or created millions of jobs... More

  • CBO Report Projects Unemployment Rate to Stay Well above Administration’s “With Stimulus” Forecast

    February 7, 2013 - On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report that predicts that the unemployment rate will remain close to 8 percent through the end of this year. That’s the same level the Obama Administration predicted the unemployment rate would max out at in mid-2009, back when they were ... More

  • Camp, Hatch Demand Answers from HHS on Welfare Waiver Scheme

    February 4, 2013 - Washington, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Orrin Hatch (R-UT) again called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to explain how the agency determined it had the unilateral authority to waive welf... More

  • Camp Statement on January Jobs Report

    February 1, 2013 - Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the January jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 157,000 jobs were created, and the unemployment rate for January increased to 7.9 percent. “This report and the ... More

  • We Spent $1 Trillion for This?

    February 1, 2013 - In February 2009, President Obama signed the Democrats’ $1 trillion stimulus plan into law. As shown in their infamous January 2009 Romer-Bernstein Report (officially titled “The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan”), the Obama Administration predicted that with their stimulus... More

  • Obama Jobs Council Ends the Way it Started — with Americans Still as Unlikely to Have a Job as Before

    January 31, 2013 - Today, the Obama Administration announced that they would shut down the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. But will Americans really miss it? When it did meet, the President largely ignored the council’s most substantive recommendations. And now the council hasn’t met in over a year. I... More

  • ICYMI: Tameria Greene's death shows work must be done to protect kids

    January 24, 2013 - Tameria Greene of Detroit should have celebrated her ninth birthday on January 2. Instead, her family was preparing for her funeral after she was fatally stabbed on December 30. Although the death of any child is tragic, Tameria's is especially heartbreaking. On her birthday, authorities charged he... More

  • Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 325, No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013

    January 23, 2013 - I rise today in strong support of H.R. 325, the “No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013.” This legislation directs members of the House and Senate to adopt a budget resolution by April 15, 2013. If either body does not, members of that body will have their pay withheld until they pass a budget. It’s simple:... More

  • Camp Opening Statement: Hearing on the Debt Limit

    January 22, 2013 - Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today for the first full committee hearing of the 113th Congress. The topic of today’s hearing is the debt limit, which has increased higher and faster under President Obama than any President in our nation’s history. Since the President first took office in ... More

  • Four Years Later

    January 18, 2013 - While President Obama prepares for his second inauguration next week, many Americans are hoping that the next four years aren’t filled with the same failed economic policies and broken promises as the last four years. As the table below shows, from unemployment to housing to debt, the country is wo... More