Dave Camp

I am pleased to rise today in support of H. Res. 1648, a resolution that recognizes the importance of federal efforts to encourage adoption, and honors National Adoption Day and Month. As an avid adoption supporter, I believe that Congress…

Mr. Speaker, let me start by saying it is truly disappointing that this is the only trade bill in the past 2 years that has been marked up by the Ways and Means Committee. I find it unacceptable that this is the sum total of our trade…

This bill seeks to expand the eligibility for certain current law tax benefits to algae-based fuels. Specifically, it would make algae or algae plant property eligible for both the cellulosic biofuel producer credit and for 50 percent…

Regulated investment companies, better known in their most prevalent form as mutual funds, are intended to provide individual investors the ability to invest easily and with low costs in a diversified pool of professionally managed…

Last Friday we learned the unemployment rate is still at 9rac{1}{2} percent, and it would be much higher if the official calculations also looked at the fast-growing number of Americans who have become so discouraged that they have given…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation, representing more than 3 million business organizations of every size. They strongly oppose this legislation because they say it would place "draconian tax increases…

I agree, there is a serious flaw in this health care bill. This is one of many, and this serious flaw is a job-killer. So I commend the majority for their recognition of these serious flaws in the health care bill and that there are…

That is just simply an untrue statement, and it is beneath the dignity of the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to assert that.

I think it's odd so many speakers today have begun all their remarks with a look-back and attempt to re-litigate history and are sort of picking selective parts of history. The fact is, when this budget was balanced there was a Republican…

American employers say this bill will kill jobs. Look, the Democrats promised the stimulus would create millions of jobs. It hasn't. They promised it would create 3.7 million jobs. Well, that hasn't occurred. Instead, since the stimulus…

Mr. Speaker, the facts are clear: with unemployment stuck at nearly 10 percent and millions of jobs lost, the Democrats' trillion-dollar stimulus bill has failed. So what is the majority's response? Raise taxes on American jobs and give…

Look, 47 out of 50 States have lost jobs. If there was such great job creation because of the stimulus bill, why have we seen the unemployment rate continue to hover around 10 percent? And, frankly, any minor reductions in it are because…

It has been nearly 1\1/2\ years since the President signed the $1 trillion stimulus bill into law, and now the majority has come up with a new ``Make It in America'' agenda, which begs the question, if the stimulus was such a success, why…

Three weeks ago we were here talking about this. Two months ago we were here talking about this. And even if this bill becomes law, in four months we will likely be back again talking about this. The specific subject is extended…

First, let me address the rule of the House. It's very clear that these are treated the same way, if you look at the rules. In fact, if you pull the rules of the House out, there is subsection called ``Congressional Earmarks.'' All of this…

I'm disappointed that I can't support this legislation. The Miscellaneous Tariff bill has long been a bipartisan effort that helps both American manufacturers and consumers obtain lower-cost access to products that aren't made in the…

This motion to recommit on H.R. 5618 has a provision to pay for the extended unemployment benefits proposed in the underlying bill. We think it is important to help long-term unemployed people, and we want to do it without adding another…

I would say to my friend from New Jersey, we agree this is important. This is important. This is so important that we believe that we should pay for this. And let me just quote the majority leader, who was on ABC's This Week, said, ``There…

This debate has shown the length the majority will go to in order to avoid paying for any government spending, even calling the eighth extension of unemployment benefits an emergency. One would hope that even the Congress would see this…

What we've been hearing most of today is really a false choice, that we either do this bill unpaid for or do nothing at all. And in a $3 trillion budget, we can't find the $34 billion to pay for this bill? As I said before, I have…

Mr. Speaker, I would just say to my friend from Michigan that not even Democrat Senator Ben Nelson supported the bill last night. I know my friend is trying to paint this as a totally Republican issue, but there were Democrat Senators who…

Here we go again. Another month, another bill extending unemployment benefits and extending the Federal deficit. Only this time, the Democrats have waited now almost an entire month since these programs last expired to come up with a plan…

I voted for these benefits. This will represent the eighth extension of unemployment benefits since July of 2008. Of those eight bills, one has been paid for. I heard my friend on the other side so eloquently speak of the forgotten man…

I just want to respond to my friend from Michigan, the chairman, and say it's really about the reality of this legislation, not just the rhetoric. And while excluding capital gains on the sale of small business stock is a great provision…

In closing, I just want to say that we look at the costs that the individual mandate particularly is going to hit hard on small businesses and how difficult that's going to make it for them to continue to be able to expand and hire…