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The Committee on Ways and Means, the oldest tax-writing body in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1789, shapes fiscal legislation including taxes, tariffs, and social service programs. Its notable influence is underscored by numerous members who have risen to prominent national offices, including Presidents and Supreme Court Justices.
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Smith Statement on Interest Rate Cuts & Fed’s Failure to Act Sooner
“Finally.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Federal Open Market…
September 17, 2025Chairman Smith: Legislation Protects Patients, Seniors, and all Taxpayers
Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) delivered the following opening statement at a Committee markup of health…
September 16, 2025Five Key Moments: Hearing on Barriers to Work for People with Disabilities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Current Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) policies often discourage work for individuals receiving…
September 16, 2025Chairman Smith Applauds Trump Administration’s Quick Action to Advance Rural Health Transformation Program
Washington, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Trump Administration’s Centers…
September 15, 2025Even CBO Now Forecasts More Economic Growth Thanks to 2025’s Working Families Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just as Republicans unleashed an economic boom after passing the 2017 Trump tax cuts, the recently enacted working…
September 12, 2025New Jobs Data Revisions Show High Interest Rates Must Come Down to Let Working Families Tax Cuts Succeed
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly a million fewer jobs were created during the end of the Biden Administration, according to a recent…
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PASSED: The Ways and Means Committee just passed H.R. 842, the Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act.
This bill expands seniors’s access to multi-cancer early detection screening tests, which would help seniors catch and treat cancer…
80% of tax-exempt hospitals are spending less on charity care and other critical health care priorities than they receive from their generous tax breaks. Rather than investing this money into patient care, they are using those benefits on non-health care activities like virtue…
Non-profit hospitals play a vital role in patient care, sometimes as the only source of care for patients. We must protect hospitals that honor their tax-exempt status and hold accountable those that abuse it.
80% of tax-exempt hospitals are spending less on charity care and other critical health care priorities than they receive from their generous tax breaks. Rather than investing this money into patient care, they are using those benefits on non-health care activities like virtue signaling, renaming stadiums, or green energy initiatives.
Tax-exempt status was created for organizations that give back to their communities, not spread a woke agenda. ...
Tax-exempt hospitals receive special tax benefits because they have a mission to provide vital care to patients.
More transparency from these hospitals is needed so that taxpayers know what services they are actually providing and why they deserve to receive special tax treatment. ...
The data is clear. Many tax-exempt hospitals, that receive generous tax benefits, take more from the taxpayers than they invest back into the health care mission in their communities, and it isn’t close.
Many tax-exempt hospitals have strayed from their health care mission in favor of non-health care activities, including virtue signaling to woke causes. ...
When the system of benefits serving those with disabilities is overly complex, it can be a disservice to both someone looking for a new job or someone looking to hire or promote an employee.
Providing employers with knowledge and the ability to better navigate the system would benefit both them and those Americans with disabilities who are interested in pursing a new job, new career, or promotion. ...
As accessibility and treatments advance, more and more Americans with disabilities are able to reenter the workforce.
Outdated government policies shouldn’t be allowed to stand in the way of these Americans pursuing a career. ...
Roughly 60% of Americans on Social Security Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income have expressed a desire to purse a career.
Yet, current barriers prevent these Americans from being able to fill some of the 7 million vacant jobs in our nation.
Congress should work to ensure that individuals with disabilities have the opportunity to participate in the workforce. ...