ENHANCED E-VERIFY—ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF IMMIGRATION REFORM

IMMIGRATION OF HIGH-SKILLED WORKERS—MAKING THEM AMERICANS

As a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan, I know all too well what bad decisions look like, and how one bad decision — even early in a game — can cost you. In the first quarter of a scoreless football game, you don’t gamble and go for it on fourth down if you are in field-goal range — you take the points. If the immigration debate is a football game, it’s a scoreless first quarter right now and it’s time to kick the proverbial field goal and take the policy points in the form of enhanced E-Verify and legislation dealing with…

The hearing will come to order. Good morning and thank you for joining us for our hearing on the Ways & Means Small Business Tax Reform Discussion Draft.

In March 2011, the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee held a hearing on small businesses and tax reform. We learned that the temporary, complex nature of the tax code was forcing small business owners to invest their time and resources complying with the tax code instead of growing their businesses. The message was clear: simplifying the tax code means more jobs created by small businesses.

Indeed, comprehensive tax reform must result in a simpler, more…

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the release of the 2013 Compilation of Trade Statutes – commonly known as the “Trade Blue Book.”  First published in 1987 and periodically updated since, the Blue Book compiles the statutory text of U.S. trade laws, integrating numerous separate acts of Congress into a single statutory compilation.  Designed as a resource for Committee Members and interested parties in the international trade community, it is available free of charge on the Committee’s website here and printed copies can be ordered from the Government Printing Office.

Chairman Camp: “The Trade Blue…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The official name for President Obama's health-care law is the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Yet, despite its misleading title, Obamacare will do anything but provide affordable health care.

When the bill's series of mandates and tax increases are fully implemented in January 2014, Americans of all ages and incomes will be faced with the daunting realization that our nation's health-care system will never be the same.

Employers and their employees will be hit hard by the upcoming mandates and tax increases. Not only will they provide a strong disincentive for businesses to grow and provide jobs, but…