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ICYMI: Small Businesses Find Benefits, Costs as They Navigate Affordable Care Act

Apr 24, 2014-- By Sarah E. Needleman and Angus Loten Many small businesses won a reprieve from having to provide health insurance under the Affordable Care Act until 2015 or later. But the law is already having a lasting impact on how lots of owners choose to run their companies. Some owners have begun to weigh strategies that might help them avoid complying with the law later on, such as opting out of providin... more

Press Release

Camp Statement on Tax Day

Apr 15, 2014-- Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement regarding Tax Day. “There is no better example of Washington’s inefficiency and ineffectiveness than our tax code. Today, as Americans across the country finish filing their taxes, they come face to face with a tax code that is too complicated, takes too much time to comply with and costs to... more

Press Release

Boustany, Johnson Demand Answers for the American People on Treasury Debt Recovery Program

Apr 15, 2014-- Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) wrote to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Acting Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Carolyn Colvin regarding media reports that adults who may have once received Social Security benefits as children were having their tax... more

Press Release

Ways and Means Committee Refers Lois Lerner to Department of Justice for Criminal Prosecution

Apr 9, 2014-- Washington, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee, acting under its authority granted in Sec. 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, voted out a criminal referral letter to Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Eric Holder regarding actions taken by IRS employee Lois Lerner. Chairman Camp, in sending the letter on behalf of the Committ... more

Opening Statements

Nunes Opening Statement: Hearing on Trade Implications of U.S. Energy Policy and the Export of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

Apr 9, 2014-- Good afternoon. I want to welcome everyone to today’s hearing on the trade implications of U.S. energy policy and the export of liquefied natural gas. Today’s hearing focuses on the enormous potential of the U.S. energy revolution of the past decade. I’d like to make four points before we hear from our witnesses. First, the exploration of unconventional energy reserves has strengthened U.S. energy... more

The Jobs Search

What Happened Since Extended Unemployment Benefits Ended?

Apr 9, 2014-- While it operated, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program provided record amounts of financial assistance to over 24 million long-term unemployed individuals. The EUC program provided record weeks of unemployment benefits per person (a total of up to 99 weeks of all unemployment benefits in many states, far eclipsing the norm of up to 52 weeks), a record duration of such a program ... more

Opening Statements

Brady Opening Statement: Hearing on the Treasury Department’s Final Employer Mandate and Employer Reporting Requirements Regulations

Apr 8, 2014-- Today’s hearing will examine two very important and complex regulations implementing reporting requirements of the Affordable Care Act’s mandates on local businesses and workers. These regulations are long overdue. Businesses have been forced to wait four years since the passage of the law for the Treasury Department to finalize these rules. In the meantime the regulatory process has set off contr... more