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March 14, 2013
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Good morning and welcome to our first Subcommittee hearing of the 113th Congress. I want to first introduce our new Subcommittee Members, Mr. Griffin, Mr. Renacci, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Thompson, and Ms. Schwartz. Welcome aboard! I look forward to working with each of you. We begin our work during a time ...
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March 13, 2013
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Good morning. I want to welcome our panel of witnesses and everyone else to our hearing on U.S.-India trade relations. It is an honor and a privilege to be chairing my first hearing as Trade Subcommittee Chairman and to be serving with my colleague, Ranking Member Charlie Rangel. Under Chairman Camp...
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March 6, 2013
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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...
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March 5, 2013
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Three years ago this month, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. For individuals, families, and small businesses struggling to pay for health care, this milestone is no cause for celebration. Today we wil...
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February 28, 2013
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Today’s hearing is on the Obama Administration’s July 2012 proposal to allow States to waive work and activity requirements for welfare recipients, often simply called welfare’s “work requirements.” Those work requirements originated in the 1996 welfare reform law, which passed on a bipartisan basis...
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February 27, 2013
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Welcome to today’s hearing. I can’t think of a more important, or more bipartisan, topic than promoting adoption. In fact, that’s why we are having this hearing today. This is an area where both parties have worked together to improve outcomes for children, which is what I would like to do whenever...
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February 26, 2013
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Welcome to the first hearing of the Health Subcommittee for the 113th Congress. Today we will review the outdated and confusing benefit design of the traditional Medicare program, the structure of which is essentially unchanged from its inception in 1965. It maintains separate programs and benefits ...
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February 14, 2013
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Good morning and thank you for joining us today. As part of the Committee’s ongoing commitment to pursue comprehensive tax reform in an open and transparent manner, the Committee is holding today’s hearing to allow stakeholders and members of the public the opportunity to share their perspectives o...
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January 22, 2013
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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 ...
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December 12, 2012
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The purpose of our hearing today is to discuss a proposal designed to reduce the number of children who die from abuse and neglect. I would like to thank our colleague Mr. Doggett as well as Chairman Camp for their work on the important proposal we will consider today. There are tragically too many...
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