Dave Camp

I rise in support of H.R. 4 because this is a balanced and comprehensive energy strategy for our Nation. I would just like to point out two important initiatives in this bill. The first is an initiative that would help to encourage the…

Just briefly on the tax provisions in this bill, this bill is about fairness. It allows those 70 percent of taxpayers who do not itemize ability to give charitable contributions regardless of their itemizing on their tax returns. IRS data…

the passage of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 contained a signature initiative, the HOPE Scholarship Tax Credit. The HOPE Scholarship provides annual scholarship benefits to students. However, many of the students who need the most help…

Mr. Speaker, it does give me great joy to stand here today to celebrate the thousands of moms, dads, and children who become bigger and stronger families through adoption. The Hope for Children Act that we will pass in the House today will…

I support the Hope for Children Act, H.R. 622, which would raise the tax credit for adoption to $10,000. Currently the maximum credit is $6,000 for families who adopt a special-needs child and $5,000 for all other adoptions. The credit is…

Mr. Speaker, since 1995, we have made tremendous progress from the creation of the credit, to ending discrimination in adoption, to the Adoption in Safe Families Act, a stamp commemorating adoption, the Intercountry Adoption Act to help…

Over the next 10 years, the Federal Government will collect more money than it needs to operate. Even after setting aside money to protect Social Security and Medicare, the government will collect much more than it needs. If that money is…

H.R. 3100 would prohibit telemarketers from intentionally hiding their identity by blocking caller ID devices. This would ensure someone knows if a telemarketer is calling them. One simple rule of telemarketing is that once you get a…

I think that schools are an inappropriate place to dispense morning-after pills, so I rise in support of the Coburn motion to instruct. I think more importantly, not only current law allows this to be done without parent's consent, this is…

Today we are working to repeal the death tax so that family businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren, and family farms can continue to exist. Less than half of all family-owned businesses survive the death of a founder…

Yesterday, I received a call from one of my constituents; and he told me that he currently receives prescription drug coverage from his employer. He wanted to ensure that prescription drug coverage was available for seniors that do not…

I too want to commend Representative Morrison from the State of Texas for her leadership on this issue. We have read horrifying stories in the news about babies being abandoned at birth in public places. One child was found in a river…

just 30 years ago, the Great Lakes had been all but pronounced dead. Lake Erie was filled with garbage, and rotting fish regularly washed up on the beach. The Cuyahoga River, which flows into Lake Erie, was so polluted that in 1969 it…

I rise in support of H.R. 6. I am proud today that we are able to step forward and fix a glaring inequity in our Tax Code. Twenty-five million American couples pay more in taxes simply because they walk to the altar and say, I do. At an…

I am very proud to join with my friend and colleague, the Chairman of the House International Relations Committee Benjamin Gilman, in introducing the Intercountry Adoption Act of 1999, legislation to implement the Hague Convention on…

The Intercountry Adoption Act takes the next step, to ensure that international adoptions are safe, and that they are in the best interests of the child, the birth parents, and the adoptive parents.

As the world's leader in adopting children of other countries, we have a responsibility to ensure that intercountry adoption take place in a way that guarantees the children's safety and fully protects the rights of both the adoptive…

This tax is an unnecessary burden and should be eliminated.

We are introducing this bill to alleviate a problem that many of our constituents have raised with us.

I urge all of my colleagues to join me as cosponsors on this bill to repeal this unfair tax on small businesses.

The SOT is an annual tax imposed on all businesses that manufacture, distribute or sell alcohol products.

I am introducing a bill today to repeal the Special Occupational Tax (SOT) on the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Today, Congress is faced with one of its most important and difficult constitutional duties. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states that Congress shall have the power to declare war and to raise and support armies…

I wish everyone could have heard his very powerful and compelling testimony before the Subcommittee on Trade about reconciliation and engagement in Vietnam. This is not about MFN. I have heard some references to MFN or normal trade…

Mr. Speaker, I want to second the remarks of my good friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Upton), and rise in support of H.R. 3808, the bill to name the United States Post Office in Plymouth, Michigan, after our former colleague, Carl…