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December 16, 2010 Camp Floor Statement: “Tax Hike Prevention” Agreement

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today delivered a statement on the House floor in support…

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December 15, 2010 Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 6417 Omnibus Trade Act of 2010

Madame Speaker, the national unemployment rate is 9.8%.  The unemployment rate in my home state of Michigan is 12.8%.  America…

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December 02, 2010 Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 4853- Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010

The unemployment rate in October, the latest data available, was 9.6 percent. That marked 15 consecutive months we were at…

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September 29, 2010 Camp Statement – H.R. 2378, As Amended: “The Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act”

Let me start by saying that it is truly disappointing that this is the only trade bill in the past…

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August 10, 2010 Camp Statement H.R. 1586

Last Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is still at 9.5%.  It would be much higher if the official…

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July 30, 2010 Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5982 – Small Business Tax Relief Act

Last night, I intended to offer a motion to recommit that would have eliminated the new, onerous, job-killing 1099 requirement…

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July 01, 2010 Camp Floor Statement: H.R. 5618 Federal Unemployment Extension

It is said that Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting…

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