News List

  • Boustany Statement: Joint Hearing on Food Banks and Charitable Giving
    Nov 19, 2009  - Chairman Lewis, thank you for yielding time.  I want to join with my colleagues in saying that as we approach the holiday season, we have grave concerns about how these difficult times are generating unprecedented need for life’s basic necessities: food, clothing, and shelter.  I also want to co... More
  • Aren’t Jobs Part of the “American Economy,” Secretary Geithner?
    Nov 19, 2009  - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in a hearing this morning on Capitol Hill, said “If you look at any measure of the strength and stability and health of the American economy…it is substantially stronger today than when the President of the United States took office.”  That will come as a surpris... More
  • Obamacare: Buy now, pay later
    Nov 16, 2009  - There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs. As we recover slowly from a devasta... More
  • Pelosi's Economy- Nearly Three Years In
    Nov 16, 2009  - During the 2006 campaign, then-House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi unabashedly stated that, “Democrats are proposing a New Direction for America.”  As the table below shows, it turned out to be the wrong direction for American workers and families.   [i] Total non-farm employment in January 2007 ... More
  • Obama Administration Report Confirms Pelosi's Health Care Bill Still Fails to Control Costs
    Nov 14, 2009  - Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released an analysis he requested from the nonpartisan, independent experts at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  The report shows national health care costs will incr... More
  • The Lords of Entitlement
    Nov 9, 2009  - Pelosi's Health Care Bill:"It creates a vast new entitlement, financed by European levels of taxation on business and individuals" Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as th... More
  • Floor Remarks: H.R. 4038 The Republican Alternative " Common Sense Health Care Reform and Affordability Act"
    Nov 7, 2009  - Madame Speaker, The American people deserve and demand a common sense approach to health care reform that: 1) Makes health care reform affordable, 2) Guarantees all Americans, regardless of a pre-existing condition, have access to affordable health care and 3) Does so without raising taxes, wi... More
  • CAMP: Speaker Chose Not to Listen to American People
    Nov 7, 2009  - Washington, DC –  Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today voted against Speaker Pelosi’s one-trillion dollar government takeover of health care.  After the House vote, Camp issued the following statement: “Speaker Pelosi chose not to listen to the American people and instead forced thr... More
  • Democrats’ Health Care Taxes Threaten Millions More American Jobs Even as Unemployment Soars to 10.2 Percent
    Nov 6, 2009  - $154 Billion Tax on Small Businesses. The bill would impose a 5.4 percent “surtax” on the modified adjusted gross income of individuals – including many small employers who file as individuals.  According to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), one-third of this tax increase (about $154 bill... More
  • PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
    Nov 6, 2009  - Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as ame... More