Press Releases

Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Brady to Offer Amendment to Study U.S. Agriculture Export Growth From Trade Promotion Agreements

July 08, 2009 — Press Releases

Trade Subcommittee Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) will offer an amendment today to H.R. 2997, the Agriculture Appropriations bill, to move funds to allow USDA economists to study the potential benefits pending trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea could hold for American farmers and ranchers.  In addition, the study would focus on the ...

Keeping up with the Baileys: How Does Chuck Schumer’s “Typical” Middle Class Family Fare Under the Democrats’ National Energy Tax?

June 25, 2009 — Press Releases

Background: “In his new book, Positively American: Winning Back the American Middle Class One Family at a Time, Senator Charles Schumer reveals the imaginary constituents that have long informed his political career: Joe and Eileen Bailey. The Baileys live in a suburb of Long Island with their three kids, they both work, and they earn ...

Camp Reacts to President’s Press Conference

June 23, 2009 — Press Releases

Washington, DC – Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issues the following reaction to President Obama’s press conference:“It is very disturbing that the ...

CBO Analysis: Energy Taxes To Be Paid By All Americans

June 22, 2009 — Press Releases

Washington, DC – Late Friday night, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of the national energy taxes imposed on American families under the Waxman-Markey “cap-and-trade” scheme.  This analysis shows average American households would pay $770 more per year, with costs reaching as high as $1,380 per year. 

Camp Statement on Democrat Health Care Plan

June 19, 2009 — Press Releases

Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the limited portions of the health care plan unveiled by House Democrats today:“The Democrats are refusing to reveal the price tag of this bill or how they will pay for it, but it is obvious it will cost well over a trillion dollars.  We will certainly need to examine the ...

Camp, Brady Question Democrat Refusal to Study Impact on American Jobs of Not Passing the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement

June 18, 2009 — Press Releases

Today, Democrats voted against an amendment that would have directed the Department of Commerce to study the impact on American jobs of not passing the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement.  Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Dave Camp responded, “If Democrats really think that this agreement will cost us American jobs, then they should embrace an ...