admin, Author at Ways and Means

June 23, 2011 Democrats’ Plan for Medicare: Deny, Delay, and Do Nothing

During a Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing focusing on the solvency of Medicare, two Medicare Trustees testified that findings…

Good morning and thank you for joining us today for another in the series of hearings on comprehensive tax reform….

June 23, 2011 Economic Reports Provide a Trifecta of Bad News For Job Creation

The bad news on the economic front continued this morning when the Department of Labor announced that 429,000 more Americans…

As we heard from the Public Trustees at our June 3rd hearing, Social Security revenues will cover only 77 percent…

June 23, 2011 Democrats’ Medicare Rationing Board Under Attack: By Democrats

Former Democrat Leader Dick Gephardt is out this week with a scathing editorial on the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board…

CHAIRMAN TIBERI ANNOUNCES HEARING ON TAX REFORM AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES ___________________________________ HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON…

June 23, 2011 Hearing on Social Security’s Finances

HEARING ON SOCIAL SECURITY’S FINANCES _____________________ HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS…

June 22, 2011 By the Numbers: 2011 Medicare Trustees Report

Today’s hearing on the 2011 Medicare Trustees report reinforces what has long been widely acknowledged: Action must be taken to…

June 22, 2011 Hearing on the 2011 Medicare Trustees Report

HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEE 2011 MEDICARE TRUSTEE REPORT HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND…

June 21, 2011 Do You Think We Need Tax Reform?

Recent media accounts confirm the findings of a report from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT): a majority of American…