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"Good afternoon and welcome to today’s Oversight Subcommittee hearing. This is a hearing to allow Members of the Committee to hear from those directly impacted by the challenges associated with the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC). The hearing will also allow us to hear from those who are helping employers navigate the ERTC ...
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"For decades, health care inflation has far outpaced normal cost increases for most other services. Many people now spend the biggest portion of their income on health care. While costs continue to rise, our system makes it nearly impossible for patients to figure out the ...
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"Welcome everyone, to this Tax Subcommittee Hearing, and thank you, Mr. Plowgian for joining us. We are here to discuss a matter critical to our nation’s economic success.
"Perhaps it began innocently enough. The US had just enacted a historic reform of our tax laws, including the world’s first global minimum tax which only ...
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"Thank you, Chairman Comer.
"The Ways and Means Committee is charged with ensuring that the tax code is enforced fairly. Clearly, the President only believes in making taxpayers pay their fair share if they don’t share his last name.
"These two courageous whistleblowers provided my Committee with devastating testimony ...
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"Thank you Chairman LaHood and Ranking Member Davis for holding this hearing about how Congress can strengthen the non-direct assistance side of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or TANF, to lift more Americans out of poverty and protect the taxpayers who fund the program.
"I’d ...
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"My name is Darin LaHood and I represent Illinois’ 16th District, covering much of the central and northwestern parts of the state.
"Republicans secured a major victory by strengthening work requirements in the direct cash assistance portion of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program as part of the Fiscal ...
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"The Ways and Means Committee is in Kimball, Minnesota for our fifth hearing in local communities to hear directly from America’s farmers, ranchers, and mining communities about how America’s trade policies affect their daily lives and what Congress can do to make trade work better for their families.
"America is only six percent of the world’s ...
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"Too often, Washington gets in the way of Americans being able to take care of their families. If or when Congress is to be involved, it should be a partner with the American people, not a barrier. Today, the Committee is marking up legislation to cut red tape and support working families.
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"Chairman Cole, Ranking Member McGovern, thank you for the opportunity to say a few words about the legislation before us that addresses the debt ceiling and begins to address the spending binge that got us here.
"Let’s start by talking about why we are here a mere few days prior to potential default. It’s because the Biden Administration refused to ...
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"Chairman Ferguson, Ranking Member Larson – thank you for the opportunity to share a few remarks on this important topic that affects every American.
"We all know someone who has had to go through the ordeal of Identity Theft. One of the reasons I wanted to hold this hearing was after learning ...