Camp likely to get Ways and Means chair

In the aftermath of the Republican takeover of the U.S. House, Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland) is likely to get the chairmanship of the most powerful and important committee in the House, the Ways and Means Committee, which controls most federal spending. The Saginaw News reports.

Levin, Camp help fund more vulnerable candidates

Michigan Reps. Sander Levin and Dave Camp both hold leadership positions on the House Ways and Means Committee for the Democratic and Republican parties respectively, putting them in a position to raise large amounts of money. And because they’re in relatively safe districts and should be easily reelected, they can use that money to support [...]

Hoekstra ‘on the job for Michigan’ — but skips unemployment extension vote

ThinkProgress points out that Rep. Pete Hoekstra, running to be governor of a state with a 13.6 percent unemployment rate, missed the last two votes in the House on the unemployment benefits extension bill because he’s attending fundraisers. Last night, while the House was voting to pass the bill, Hoekstra was at a country club [...]

Hoesktra receives lowest ranking from League of Conservation Voters

The League of Conservation Voters annual report ranking members of Congress on their actions on environment, public health and energy issues gives Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow perfect scores and ranks the entire Democratic delegation at 93 percent or above. The Republicans scored far lower with retiring Vern Ehlers of Grand Rapids and [...]

Cox and Camp to hold carp townhall in Traverse City

Attorney General Mike Cox, a Republican candidate for governor, and U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland) have scheduled an Asian carp townhall meeting for Wednesday (11 am) at the Maritime Academy in Traverse City, the Midland Daily News reports. The men are expected to discuss the latest developments in their efforts to stop the spread of [...]

Dave Camp: ‘We’re not trying to get universal coverage’

Perhaps the strangest element of Capitol Hill’s months-long health reform debate has been that Democrats — proposing to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans while banning the worst abuses of the insurance industry — have been branded a public enemy, while Republicans — hell bent on killing the reforms — have somehow been cast [...]

U.S. Rep. Dave Camp introduces CARP ACT

U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland) has responded to the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to grant an injunction to close the locks in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal by introducing the CARP ACT (HR 4472) — Close All Routes and Prevent Asian Carp Today. “It is clear Asian Carp pose an immediate threat to the Great [...]

Camp calls stimulus a ‘failure,’ sets sights on health care reform effort

U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, a Republican from Midland, came out swinging on Tuesday charging that the federal stimulus has been a failure, and a plan by Democrats to address the health care crisis in the United States will result in lost coverage for Americans.

In a conference call with reporters, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee accused President Obama of changing his appearance in Warren today from a town hall meeting to a speech because he wanted to avoid questions.

U.S. House passes $475 million Great Lakes cleanup bill

The U.S. House has approved an appropriations bill that designates $475 million for efforts to clean up pollution and stop invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Detroit News reports that the bill includes:

Hoekstra questions Washington’s response to auto crisis

In an interview, 2010 GOP gubernatorial hopeful slams Obama for making the wrong moves to save auto industry, says top Democrats on Capitol Hill are “more interested in getting rid of the manufacturing industry than keeping it.”