Opening Statements
Thank you to our guests and witnesses for joining us today for this important hearing to review what we can…
Read More (Reichert Opening Statement: Hearing on Subsidized Jobs Programs and Their Effectiveness in Helping Families Go to Work and Escape Poverty)Good afternoon. Welcome to today’s hearing on advancing our trade agenda and trade with Africa. Before hearing from our witnesses,…
Read More (Nunes Opening Statement: Hearing on Advancing the U.S. Trade Agenda – Trade with Africa and the African Growth and Opportunity Act)Yesterday, the Social Security Board of Trustees – folks who provide us with the results of Social Security’s annual financial…
Read More (Johnson Opening Statement: Hearing on What Workers Need to Know About Social Security as They Plan for Their Retirement)Today we will hear testimony regarding the Medicare Advantage program. We will hear about these private plans that are chosen…
Read More (Brady Opening Statement: Hearing on the Future of Medicare Advantage Plans)Good morning and welcome to this morning’s hearing on the integrity of insurance premium subsidies under the President’s health care…
Read More (Boustany Opening Statement: Hearing on the Integrity of the Affordable Care Act’s Premium Tax Credit)We all can agree that funding improvements to the nation’s infrastructure is vitally important to creating economic growth and promoting…
Read More (Camp Statement: Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014)Thank you Mr. Chairman for the opportunity to speak here today, and for all of your work on behalf of…
Read More (Black Opening Statement: Markup of H.R. 3393, the “Student and Family Tax Simplification Act”)We have a nation that is struggling to make ends meet. The families I talk to back home – whether…
Read More (Jenkins Opening Statement: Markup of H.R. 4935, the “Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014”)Good morning. Over three years ago, this Committee started asking the IRS: was it targeting conservatives for their beliefs; was…
Read More (Camp Opening Statement: Hearing with IRS Commissioner John Koskinen)I would like to welcome back the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee. Neither MedPAC nor its witness here today, Executive Director,…
Read More (Brady Opening Statement: Health Subcommittee Hearing on MedPAC’s June 2014 Report)