News List

  • Camp, Brady Urge Action on the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement
    Nov 20, 2009  - Washington, DC - Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued the following statement on the upcoming third anniversary of the signing of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement this Sunday, November 22: Congressman Dave Camp said, “The P... More
  • Ratify Korea trade pact
    Nov 18, 2009  - The South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement should be ratified, and soon, because of the initialing last month of a similar agreement between South Korea and the European Union. The EU-Korean free-trade agreement hasn't yet been formally signed or ratified, but it will be. Americans have their own ... More
  • Brady Opening Statement: Hearing on the Operation, Impact, and Future of the U.S. Preference Programs
    Nov 17, 2009  - Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  International trade is a powerful engine for economic growth and job creation, as our experience here at home demonstrates.  One out of every five American jobs depends on trade, and as Ambassador Kirk notes, jobs supported by exports pay higher wages than other jobs.  For ... More
  • Camp and Brady Welcome U.S. Participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks
    Nov 13, 2009  - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to the President’s announcement that the United States will participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations: Camp:  “I am pleased that ... More
  • Senior Republicans Hold Roundtable; Point to Job Loss Created by Careless Buy American Expansion
    Oct 8, 2009  - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Representatives Charles Boustany (R-LA), David Dreier (R-CA), Wally Herger (R-CA) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) commented on the "Buy American" obligations in the stimulus, which appear to be having a clogging, rather than priming, e... More
  • Ways & Means Republicans: DOL Defying Congressional Will on TAA and Reducing State Flexibility to Help Workers
    Oct 5, 2009  - Washington D.C. – In public comments to the U.S. Department of Labor, Ways & Means Republican Members today expressed their strong opposition to the Department’s proposed federal mandate that state Employment Service (ES) employees administer TAA-funded benefits and services under the expanded T... More
  • Camp, Brady Applaud Appropriations Poultry Fix
    Sep 25, 2009  - Washington, D.C. - Committee on Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today commented on the poultry language in the final conference agreement for the 2010 Agriculture Appropriations bill: Congressman Dave Camp stated, “Today’s ann... More
  • All Talk on Trade
    Sep 17, 2009  - Is President Obama a free trader? He has said so -- many times. At the April Group of 20 summit in London, he announced that he and the other assembled leaders had "rejected the protectionism that could deepen this crisis. History tells us that turning inward can help turn a downturn into a depressi... More
  • Analysis by Administration Officials Shows That Democrats’ Energy Tax Would Cost 2.2 million American Jobs
    Sep 16, 2009  - Analysis by the Treasury Department shows that the Democrats’ National Energy Tax would likely cut U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) significantly: “Economic costs will likely be on order of 1% of GDP, making them equal in scale to all existing environmental regulation.”  Using the analytical method... More
  • Republicans Comment on Two Pending Trade Agreements and Call on the Administration to Defend America’s Competitiveness
    Sep 15, 2009  - Washington, DC— Republican Leaders, all Ways & Means Republicans, and other Republican Members today sent U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk letters in response to the Administration’s request for comments on the pending Colombia and South Korea trade agreements.  Attached to these letters is an... More