Dave Camp represents the people of the 4th Congressional District of Michigan, one of the largest congressional districts land-wise east of the Mississippi, encompassing all or parts of 14 counties in northwest and mid-Michigan. First elected to Congress in 1990, Camp was reelected in 2004 by the people he serves for an eighth term with 64 percent of the vote.
Camp sits on the House Ways and Means Committee and is a member of its Health, Human Resources and Select Revenue Measures subcommittees. The committee is considered one of the most powerful in the House, with jurisdiction over tax, tariff and trade laws, plus health care and Social Security. This year, Camp was selected to Chair the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, which serves as the chief subcommittee on tax policy.
A member of the House Republican leadership team, Camp serves as a deputy majority whip to help ensure the Republicans’ agenda is passed. Camp managed the successful campaign of Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (IL-16) to become Speaker of the House and is a member of the Steering Committee, which determines the chairmanship and membership of House committees.
As an attorney in private practice before his first election, Camp worked extensively with parents and children in the foster care system. His experiences led him to become one of the House's leading adoption and foster care proponents and experts. Camp has had adoption legislation signed into law by both Republican and Democrat presidents and currently serves as Chairman of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
Camp is dedicated to keeping the trust and representing the values of his constituents in mid-Michigan. A fiscal conservative, he has been named a "taxpayer hero" by Citizens Against Government Waste. His voting record has also earned him a perfect score from Citizens for a Sound Economy and the Spirit of Enterprise award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Before his appointment to the Ways and Means Committee in 1994, Camp served on the House Agriculture Committee. He has maintained his close ties to the agricultural community. He received national recognition for his work in 1998 when the American Farm Bureau Federation honored him with its "Golden Plow" award. The prestigious award is presented annually to one U.S. representative and one U.S. senator for their distinguished agriculture leadership.
Camp was born in Midland, Michigan and graduated from Midland Dow High School. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1975 from Albion College in Albion, Michigan, and graduated with a J.D. from the University of San Diego in 1978. Before his election to Congress, he served one term as a state representative in the Michigan Legislature.
He and his wife Nancy reside in Midland with their three children.
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