U.s House Committee On Ways And Means
Recent News About U.s House Committee On Ways And Means
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In Georgia, Small Businesses Share How GOP Pro Growth Tax Plans Continue to Make a Difference
During a hearing held in an airplane parts manufacturing facility in Peachtree City, Georgia, small business owners told the Ways and Means Committee how the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has made a difference in their lives and livelihoods and Congress should immediately work to extend expiring provisions.
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Four Key Moments from the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Hearing on Countering Chinese Trade and Investment
China’s unfair trade practices have repeatedly cheated American workers, farmers, and small businesses in its decades-long pursuit of dominance over the United States.
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4 Key Takeaways from the Ways and Means Hearing on the U.S. Tax Code Subsidizing Green Corporate Handouts and the Chinese Communist Party
Green welfare for the wealthy and well-connected is exploding under Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as hundreds of billions of tax dollars are flowing to big banks, corporations, and the Chinese Communist Party, witnesses revealed during a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday.
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Statement from Chairman Smith on IRS Whistleblower Outreach
"As with all matters before the Committee, we will go where the facts lead and conduct a review of this matter in an appropriate and timely manner."
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Ways and Means Committee Takes Bipartisan Action to Stand Up for American Workers Against China’s Unfair Trade Practices
The Committee’s action today was an important step to ensure the United States maintains crucial protections for American workers and our economy as a whole.
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Chairman Smith Opening Statement: Hearing on the U.S. Tax Code Subsidizing Green Corporate Handouts and the Chinese Communist Party
“We are here today to examine what has happened with the mountain of “green” special interest tax breaks in the President’s so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.” In the eight months since that law’s passage, three things are clear.
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Chairman Smith Opening Statement: Markup of H.J.R. 39, Congressional Review Act Legislation on Solar Tariffs
“Before we begin, I’d like to take a moment to mention our colleague Dan Kildee who cannot be with us today as he is recovering from surgery related to his recent cancer diagnosis.
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JCT Confirms Green New Deal Tax Breaks Flowing to Big Banks and Other Billion-Dollar Corporations
Billion-dollar corporations and big banks will be the primary beneficiary of corporate tax breaks stuffed inside the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
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Chairman Jason Smith Opening Statement: Countering China’s Trade & Investment Agenda – Opportunities for American Leadership
“Thank you, Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Blumenauer.
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Trade Subcommittee Chairman A. Smith Opening Statement: Countering China’s Trade & Investment Agenda – Opportunities for American Leadership
“Good afternoon. The Subcommittee will come to order. Ranking Member Blumenauer and Subcommittee Members— I look forward to working with you this Congress.
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Chairman Smith: Biden’s Supercharged IRS and Proposed Tax Hikes Make Tax Day Even More Stressful for Working Americans
Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement in observance of Tax Day, warning of the increased threat to taxpayers posed by Democrat efforts to supercharge the IRS and hike taxes on workers and small businesses.
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Automaker’s Troubling Deal with Chinese Company Raises Questions About Democrats’ Electric Vehicle Tax Credits
Taxpayer dollars may be getting funneled to a Chinese company and potential “foreign entity of concern” through its partnership with Ford, thanks to the automaker’s use of electric vehicle tax credits in the Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act, writes Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) to Ford CEO Jim Farley in a new letter.
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Chairman Smith: Under President Biden, Small Businesses Struggle to Keep the Doors Open, Lights On
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Producer Price Index showed wholesale prices rising by 2.7 percent from the previous year, which get passed down to consumers in the form of higher prices at the checkout counter:
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Congressional Republicans Call for Reconsideration of Administration’s Anti-Innovation Drug-Price Policy
Patients, caregivers, and practitioners will soon see fewer cures should the Biden Administration move forward with implementing its drug price-setting guidance, write House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (MO-08), House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), and U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, in a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Brooks-LaSure.
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Chairman Smith, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Schweikert: Americans Will Struggle to Afford Accounting and Paperwork Prep Needed to Comply with Democrats’ New IRS Reporting Scheme
As it struggles to process the billions of information returns it currently receives, the IRS may be unprepared to implement Democrats’ new invasive scheme to track Americans’ personal online financial transactions, wrote Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert (AZ-01) to the Government Accountability Office in a new letter.
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Chairman Smith: Job Creators Sinking Under Weight of Democrats’ Failed Policies
Rising interest rates, historic inflation, and labor shortages, spurred by Democrat policies, are increasing pressure on working Americans and forcing small businesses to do more with less, the March jobs report shows.
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Chairman Smith Blasts Hollow IRS “Plan” that Fails to Provide Details on How Their $80 Billion Raise Will be Spent
On April 6, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement in response to the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) newly released “plan” that was supposed to inform Congress and the American people how the IRS will spend the $80 billion Democrats gave the agency in the Inflation Reduction Act (it doesn’t)
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Analysis: Democrats’ “Green” Energy Subsidies Costing Taxpayers $1.2 Trillion–THREE TIMES Original Price Tag
Democrats’ “green” energy subsidies in the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) will cost three times what was originally projected, according to new analysis featured in the Wall Street Journal.
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Ways and Means Chair Smith, Education and the Workforce Chair Foxx, Speaker McCarthy, and Republican Members of the California Delegation Call on President Biden to Abandon Nomination of Julie Su as Labor Secretary
American workers and businesses will face more regulation, mismanagement, and waste from Washington should the Senate confirm Julie Su as Labor Secretary, warned House Republicans today.
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Chairman Smith: Bipartisan Meeting with Taiwan President Reinforces an Enduring Partnership
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after participating in a bipartisan congressional delegation meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen