Opening Statements
Secretary Sebelius, thank you for joining us today for a discussion of the President’s 2015 Budget. It has been…
Read More (Camp Opening Statement: Hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius)Mr. Secretary, welcome back to the Committee and congratulations on your one-year anniversary as Treasury Secretary, I am sure this…
Read More (Camp Opening Statement: Hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal with U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew)Over the past six months, this Committee has investigated the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups. Though our investigation…
Read More (Camp Opening Statement: H.R. 3865, “Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act of 2014”)The IRS is staffed with hardworking men and women who do a tough job, collecting $2.4 trillion in annual revenue…
Read More (Boustany Opening Statement: Hearing with IRS Commissioner Koskinen)Good morning. As we discussed last week at our hearing, the President’s health care law drastically changed the definition of…
Read More (Camp Opening Statement: Mark up of H.R. 2575, the “Save American Workers Act” and H.R. 3979, the “Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act”)Late last spring, Hoosiers began to witness a strange phenomenon: One after another, local school corporations across the state announced…
Read More (Young Opening Statement: Mark up of H.R. 2575, the “Save American Workers Act” and H.R. 3979, the “Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act”)Good Morning. Less than 7 months ago, the Administration announced that they would delay the employer mandate for one year. …
Read More (Camp Opening Statement: Hearing on the Impact of the Employer Mandate’s Definition of Full-time Employee on Jobs and Opportunities)Let me begin by saying to all my colleagues on the Subcommittee that it is with deep regret that I…
Read More (Johnson Opening Statement: Hearing on the Social Security Disability Insurance Fraud Scheme in New York)For more than a decade, Congress has had to step in and prevent Medicare from cutting physician payments. The time…
Read More (Camp Opening Statement: Markup of: H.R. 2810 “Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2013”)Another day, another change by the White House to “fix” their controversial health care law. Today, families and patients abandoned…
Read More (Brady Opening Statement: Hearing on the Challenges of the Affordable Care Act)