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In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting Tea Party groups, three months after the IRS scandal erupted..

Rep. David Camp (R-Mich.) will decide whether or not to run for Senate by next January. “I always knew I was going to be on the ballot. We run every two years in the House. “I just don’t know where I’m going to be on the ballot at this point,” he told Bloomberg TV in an interview airing Friday evening. “I think certainly by January, I’ll be able to know whether I’m going to do one or the other.” He said he was being encouraged to look at the race for the seat being vacated by Sen. Carl Levin (D)....

Leading Democrats are putting together fallback proposals if Washington fails to reach a deal on the “fiscal cliff” that would allow the party to cast itself as seeking to cut taxes. “Of course, I’ve got a backup plan in the event that we don’t succeed here,” Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Friday. “I’m sure the White House has one too.” Tax rates are set to expire on most households in January if Congress does not act to extend some of the rates, something some Democrats have long seen as giving their party an advantage....

House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) will undergo treatment for cancer, which was discovered during a recent yearly physical. Camp will receive chemotherapy for non-Hodgkins lymphoma every three weeks over the next several months leading up to the election. The panel chairman said he will continue working. “After a recent routine yearly physical, it was discovered that I have a very early, highly treatable and curable type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma — large B-cell lymphoma," he said in a statement. "In between treatments I will continue my work as a United States Representative for Michigan’s fourth district and as...

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The United States is now, officially, the worst place to do business in the developed world. On Sunday, Japan lowered its corporate tax rate in the hopes of luring business to its shores, handing the title of highest tax rate to the Land of the Free. The market reaction on Monday will tell whether money will begin flowing away from us and toward the more business-friendly Asian country. Japan’s combined corporate tax rate went down from 39.8 percent to 36.8 percent on its way to 34.5 percent within a few years. The U.S. federal rate is 35 percent and the...

A top House Republican is facing a swell of pressure from Jewish communities across the country as they lobby, not for legislation, but for his intervention in the personal life of an adviser. The adviser, Aharon Friedman, has been shunned by Jewish leaders for refusing to grant his ex-wife a religious divorce known as a "get."

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....