COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

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  • Health Insurers Warn on Premiums

    March 22, 2013 - Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans. The p... More

  • ICYMI: Health-care law uncertainty grips Old Town Alexandria cafe — and other small businesses

    March 21, 2013 - Jody Manor has run a small cafe and catering company for nearly three decades in Old Town Alexandria, only a few blocks from where he was born. Six years ago he purchased an adjoining building, and more recently he started searching for a second location. Whether he moves forward with expansion dep... 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

  • AP Exclusive: Applying for Obama plan not easy

    March 12, 2013 - WASHINGTON (AP) — Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing your taxes. The government's draft application runs 15 pages for a three-person family. An outline of the online version has 21 steps, some with additional questions. Seven mont... 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ICYMI: Coalition: Reform both sides of tax code

    February 22, 2013 - The fate of corporate tax reform — a goal shared by virtually everyone in Washington — is almost certainly linked to a far greater challenge: rewriting tax laws for individuals. That’s according to Elaine Kamarck, the Democratic co-chair of the RATE Coalition, a group of dozens of major companies t... More

  • One Step Toward Rethinking Taxes

    February 19, 2013 - Tax reform, at least in American politics these days, is generally discussed at only the most abstract level. There is general agreement that it would be nice to lower tax rates while broadening the base by getting rid of loopholes. The latter, of course, are seldom specified in any detail, and are ... More

  • Social Security’s Financial Future

    January 30, 2013 - Workers, especially younger ones, have been surprised to see their pay checks shrink as the temporary payroll tax cut has gone away and they are again paying their full 6.2 percent of wages in order to fund Social Security. To avoid further worsening Social Security’s financing challenges, under th... More