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June 18, 2013
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Welcome to today’s hearing. Today is the first hearing in a series on what government does to help low-income families get ahead, whether that is effective, and how that can be made to work better. Today we will start with a review of our current system and how much we spend, but more importantly wh...
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June 14, 2013
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I want to welcome everyone to today’s hearing on bipartisan proposals, including those in the President’s budget, to reform how Medicare pays for care after patients are hospitalized. This is the fifth hearing for our subcommittee this Congress and the fourth hearing in a series focusing on biparti...
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June 12, 2013
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Welcome everyone, to our hearing on the U.S.-Brazil trade and investment relationship. The U.S. trade and investment relationship with Brazil deserves to be recognized as one of our most important. Brazil has been our eighth largest trading partner in recent years, accounting for nearly $60 billion...
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June 5, 2013
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Good morning. Today the Subcommittee will examine how Social Security protects the benefits of those who cannot protect themselves. About 14 percent of those receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits need someone to manage their payments. These are our most vulnerable, incl...
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June 4, 2013
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Despite nearly two years of denials, last month the IRS finally admitted the truth – three years ago the agency began systematically targeting individuals based on their political beliefs. However, what the agency has yet to admit, and what we still need to find out, is just how widespread this act...
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May 23, 2013
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Good morning and welcome to the third hearing in the Committee’s series on the President’s and other bipartisan entitlement reform proposals. Workers have worked hard, played by the rules, and earned the right to a secure retirement that no one can take away. Yet unless Congress acts to protect and...
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May 17, 2013
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On May 10, 2013, Lois Lerner, Director of Exempt Organizations for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) division that oversees tax-exempt groups, finally acknowledged that the agency had been targeting conservative-leaning political organizations. Four days later, the Treasury Inspector General for T...
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May 16, 2013
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Good afternoon. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing on the U.S.-EU trade and investment partnership negotiations. Today’s hearing focuses on the enormous potential that exists in a U.S.-EU trade and investment agreement. The U.S.-EU economic relationship is the largest and most integrated in t...
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May 15, 2013
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The hearing will come to order. Good morning and thank you for joining us for our hearing on the Ways & Means Small Business Tax Reform Discussion Draft. In March 2011, the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing on small businesses and tax reform. We learned that the temporary, complex...
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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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