COMMITTEE on WAYS and MEANS

Chairman Dave Camp

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  • AEI: Undoing Welfare Reform

    July 30, 2012 - The Obama administration has opened the door to changes in welfare reform that could destroy it from within. Federal officials have invited states to request “waivers” of the normal rules that govern putting welfare recipients to work. They describe these rules as mere “paperwork” that gets in the ... More

  • Why Fast-Tracking Tax Reform Matters (It's Not What You Think)

    July 27, 2012 - Next week House Republicans are expected to pass an extension of the Bush tax cuts that includes a measure to fast-track comprehensive tax reform next year -- an idea that some lawmakers dismiss as just another legislative gimmick. But that misses the more important point, largely that Republicans ... More

  • Obama turns back clock on welfare reform

    July 26, 2012 - By Chairman Dave Camp President Obama recently gutted the historic and bipartisan welfare reforms of 1996. His decision to allow states to ignore the work requirement in the welfare program is not only wrong, but illegal. The bipartisan welfare reforms of the 1990s were the result of serious, tough... More

  • Poll: 83 percent support welfare work requirement that Obama gutted

    July 20, 2012 - President Obama’s Health and Human Services Department undermined the work requirement legislated in the 1996 welfare reform bill, but 83 percent of Americans disagree with the president on that position. “Most Americans think there are too many people on welfare who should not be getting it and be... More

  • Business Roundtable Supports House Action on Comprehensive Tax Reform

    July 18, 2012 - Dear Mr. President: Congress and the White House must begin now to resolve fundamental fiscal and tax issues confronting America. The current political paralysis hindering principled compromise has fueled needless economic uncertainty that impedes a more robust economic recovery. Without effective ... More

  • Obama Kills Welfare Reform

    July 18, 2012 - Determined to destroy Bill Clinton's signature achievement, President Barack Obama's Administration has opened a loophole in the 1996 Welfare Reform legislation big enough to make the law ineffective. Its work requirement -- the central feature of the legislation -- has been diluted beyond recognit... More

  • Obama Administration Aims to Undermine Key Welfare Reforms

    July 16, 2012 - “The Obama administration has quietly opened the door for states to seek major changes in how they meet federal welfare-to-work requirements….What started out as just another bureaucratic memorandum drew a swift rebuke from one of the authors of welfare reform, as well as from senior Republican law... More

  • The Washington Times: Obama buying reelection, one entitlement at a time (Editorial)

    July 13, 2012 - Welfare to work is the cornerstone of a reform passed in 1996 by a Republican Congress and signed by Bill Clinton. The Obama administration on Thursday announced it was taking steps to gut this landmark law. The theory behind welfare reform was people on government assistance not only should work to... More

  • Off the Tax Cliff He Goes

    July 10, 2012 - So the 2013 tax cliff is a big enough economic problem that President Obama now wants to postpone it for some taxpayers. But it isn't so big that he's willing to curb his desire to raise taxes on tens of thousands of job-creating businesses. That's the essence of Mr. Obama's announcement Monday tha... More

  • AP: Can IRS manage to police taxes and health care law?

    July 9, 2012 - WASHINGTON – Can the Internal Revenue Service police President Obama's health care mandate while simultaneously collecting all the taxes for running the federal government? The question is being renewed in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision upholding most of the 2010 Affordable Care Act as a t... More