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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) made clear on Thursday that when it comes to a deficit reduction deal, his position hasn’t changed: Tax increases are out, but new revenues could be in. The question of taxes and revenue has bedeviled congressional and administration negotiators for months, and they were at the center of the dispute between Boehner and President Obama when their talks for a possible “grand bargain” on the budget fell apart over the summer. As the clock ticks down on the deficit supercommittee to find at least $1.2 trillion in savings, the size and scope of new revenues...

Key Republican on New Deficit Panel, Rep. Dave Camp, Won't Rule Out Tax Increases CNBC.com breaking headline

Speaker Boehner Announces Appointments to Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Washington (Aug 10) House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today announced his intent to appoint the following three lawmakers to represent House Republicans on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction: House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) Speaker Boehner has tapped Chairman Hensarling to serve as a co-chair of the joint select committee. Boehner issued the following statement regarding the appointments of Chairmen Hensarling, Camp, and Upton: “Our debt and deficits...

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee wants to cut the top U.S. tax rate to 25% for individuals and corporations, and cut or eliminate many popular deductions. View Full Image Getty Images The tax-overhaul plan form House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, left, would be designed to be revenue neutral overall. .The odds of quick action appear slender. But the move, from Rep. Dave Camp (R., Mich.), is significant as a marker in what will likely be a multiyear debate over revamping the tax code. The plan also provides Republicans with a position to pitch in...

Reform: As the head of Medicaid and Medicare services testifies in favor of ObamaCare, the CBO director says it will destroy 800,000 jobs. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once famously said that we'd have to pass ObamaCare to see what was in it. She also boasted that the health care bill would create 4 million jobs — "400,000 of them almost immediately." Now that we've seen what's in it, we realize the possible consequences for our physical and economic health. And congressional testimony before GOP-led committees has given us fresh reasons for...

Free Speech: The Senate votes against transparency as the administration silences a private insurer for exposing the president's health care proposal. Meanwhile, AARP is allowed to tout reform as it awaits payday. We weren't surprised when the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday voted 12 to 11 against allowing two weeks for the Congressional Budget Office to complete its cost analysis of the health care bill pushed by Montana Democrat Max Baucus and to put the bill online in its original wording. Instead, the Senate panel passed another amendment to require the committee to post the full bill online in "conceptual"...

Click on the photo of one minute and seventeen seconds, to view the video. Here is video of GOP congressman Dave Camp from Michigan unveiling the "Obama Misery Index," or the OMI - "Oh, My Index." It focuses on the "stunning rise in debt and unemployment."

Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) Delivers Republican Weekly Radio Address Washington, Feb 21 - Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), the Ranking Republican on the House Ways & Means Committee, today delivered the Republican Weekly Radio Address. Video of the address is available here. Following is the text of Rep. Camp’s address: “Hello, I am Congressman Dave Camp from Michigan, and I serve as the lead Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. “American families and small businesses are hurting, and Republicans know that we must act to help get our economy back on track, but we also know that we can’t borrow...

[see video in article] We’re pretty macho guys at IHTM, but this exchange scares the hell out of us. Ranking House minority member Dave Camp (R-Michigan) quizzed Thomas Barthold, expert witness and Acting Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation, asking what benefits we’d get from the $1,000,000,000,000 stimulus bill. Camp: Can you tell me, Mr. Barthold, how many jobs will be created as a result of this legislation? Barthold: (gulps) Well, in short, Mr. Camp, uh…uh…I can’t. Camp: So we don’t have an estimate on the number of jobs this would create, either private sector or public. We don’t...

Here is the Republican National Committee Weekly Address, delivered today by Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan. He focuses on the Obama Stimulus Plan just passed, and points out that many more jobs could have been created with far less spending. . . . (Watch Video)

WASHINGTON, DC— U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement. "I think Senator Kerry is trying to become America's greatest illusionist, but people are seeing right through his act. He actually wants us to believe that he is the workers’ candidate, when in reality just last year the Senator from Massachusetts was fourth on SEIU's list to be the Democratic presidential nominee. Senator Kerry tries to compare today's economy to the era of the Great Depression, but the reality is our economy is growing and more people are going back to work here in Michigan and all across America....